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Picture Show, October ZOt/i, 1920.

Phoborapk:? and Paragraph.? cF Pictures. Plays and PJaverr

Famous Readers of tke " Picture
Skow.
No. 42.— MAY ALLISON.

MAT ALLTSO\T has a clever sister, Mrs. .
Neil! Stright. Mrs. Si right's name is
veil-known in American political circles :
she was a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention. Lately she visited her sister,
-and May took this opportunity to show her
her favourite picture paper.

Mrs. Stright has made many friends in the
picture colony, and has stated her intention
of getting a copy of the Picture Show sent
her weekly, so that she can learn the latest
news and see their latest photographs.

Don't Miss This !

NO. 3 of the " Girls' Cinema " is out to-
morrow. With every copy is presented a
beautiful art plate in colour, entitled
"The Way of a Maid with a Man."

Violet Hopson and Stewart Rome have
posed for this picture, and when you see it.
I am sure you will want to frame it for your
own special room.

By the way, are you reading Gregory Scott's
special letters to girls in this paper? -They
are -most illuminating, and prove that Gregory
notices more than we give most men credit for.

Thank You, M. B. H.

OUR art supplements still continue to
give universal satisfaction to our readers,
and I .hear that there is still another
surprise for readers of the Picture Show.
coming shortly which will make these art
plates even more acceptable than they are
at present.

I particularly want to thank M. B. H.. of
Manchester, who writes : " 1 arn so pleased
with the art supplement given away every week
that I have shown it to my friends, and now
three of them are happy readers of the Pictt r:::
Show." This is what I call real appreciation.
I wonder if any more of my readers are as
kind and helpful '.

— 4-4

Cosmopolitan Players.

A NOVEL combination of types will be
seen in Marshall Neilan's newest picture.
" Dimity." Wesley Barry, the already
famous freckle-faced \oufh, has'the chief role.
He is supported by Aaron Mitchell, a piccaninny,
and Walter Chung, an almond-eyed youth.
Others in the cast include an Irish maid and
a typical Chinese girl, also an Americanised
Chinaman.

Mary Pickford's Curls.

IN answer to the many letters I have received
from readers who have queried Mary
Pickford's curls since seeing her as she
appears in " Suds," on the cover of a recent
issue of the Picture Show, I must tell you
that the famous Pickford curls have not been
lo3t altogether, but just for one picture. For
this her curls have been straightened out in

an awful mannor with a specially prepared
cismetic ; her curls were ironed out and her
h.iir strained back from her forehead.

The other part of her make-up was obtained
by a deft use of grease paint, which gavo a
saucy up-tilt to her nose and made her cheeks
appear sunken. It is only by her wonderful
cyjs that we can recognise our Mary.

By the way, did you know that one of Mary's
curls was auctioned for over 100,000 dollars'
worth of Liberty Bonds when the little star
was on her collecting tour during the war '!

— *■■* —
News of " Doug."

NOW I must tell you about Doug. We
are to see one of the greatest of fights
when we see " The Mollycoddle."
That Douglas is not afraid of receiving
punishment is proved by his engagement of
Wallace Beary to portray the role of the
villainous " heavy." Beary is 4 inches taller
than Doug., and' has an advantage in weight
of 40 pounds.

In order that his fight might be realistic,
Fairbanks had not made it known that there
was such a scene until a few minutes before
it was filnied. Film battles of this character
are not tricks of the camera ;-they are waged
as though the combatants were really deadly
enemies. It was on this basis that Fairbanks
and Beary went through their bottle, and the
result " will practically make the hair stand
up on a bald head," said one who has seen it.
— ♦< —

" Who is Fairbanks ? "

A FRIEND who has been travelling in
Switzerland tells me that the most
amusing evening he spent was in a
" Temple of Motion-Picture Art," as the
manager called his little play-house. It was
in Berne, and the play was called " Doug, in
the Harem." It was one of the funniest Fair-
banks pictures he had ever seen.

The titles were in both German and French,
and not once was Fairbanks' name used.
Picture-goers in this part of the world simply
know Fairbanks as " Doug.," but this does
not prevent him from being a. prime favourite.

MADGE STEWART as Innocent in the Stoll
version of Marie Corelli's novel of that name.

They Nearly Kidnapped 'Gene.

EUGENE O'BRIEN" had an exciting ex-
perience the other day, when he, with
Zeena Keefe and a number of other
actors and actresses of both stage and screen,
were travelling by train.

At one station over 900 girls lined up for a
glimpse of the screen celebrities. I hoar that
Mr. O'Brien had all he could do to keep the
girls from carrying him away.

— ♦+ —

Paris Hint

NORMA TALMADGE told me that while
in Paris, she attended a conference
of French glove manufacturers, and that
the organisation known as the Style Syndicato
has decreed that sleeves shall be long and
gloves short this winter.

— t-i —

A Costly Wardrobe.

IT is said that Elsie Ferguson spends sixty
days out of the year with modistes. Miss
Ferguson has always made a feature of
her clothes, and it is rumoured that her dress-

ETHELYN GIESON, now BOY STEWART smiles in

appearing in Billy West greeting to friendly

productions soon to be readers of the PICTURE
shown over here. SHOW.

makers* bills alone comedo £15,000 a year.

The costumes that are to be worn in her
corning play, " Lady Rose's Daughter," are
unusually rich and attractive, and each is
typical of the particular period it represents.

As you know, Miss Ferguson's beautiful
gowns have always been a feature of her photo-
plays.

From an American Newspaper.

THE following extract from a newspaper
- published in Lo3 Angeles shows that
our representative in Cinemaland ia
always on the alert for the latest news and
pictures.^

The paragraph is headed, " Goes for Story
in Aeroplane," and the story reads :

'; L'se of aeroplanes in news gathering, as
illustrated in Marshall Neilan's film story of
newspaper life, ' Go and Get It,' was demon-
strated by the resident correspondent for the
Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, when ha
swooped down in a plane on the Neilan lot
and called out to the producer :

" ' You gave me the idea, now give me a
story !

" He was accompanied by Emory Rogers,
widely known local pilot. Before they departed.
Marjorie Daw was taken for a spin in tha
clouds. While on the lot, material for an
article for the Picture Show, the London
tihn publication, was obtained."

— —
"Phrosos" Found.

YOLT will remember that I told you that
Louis Mercanton, the famous French
producer, was searching Europe for a
girl to interpret Sir Anthony Hope's well-
known character of " Phrosos."

Louis Mercanton has now made his choice :
he found her in London, and she is Miss Malvina
Longfellow. They are now at Cannes, and,

Picture Show, October 30th, 1920.

•PICTURE SHOW CHAT. {Cot7ee3fr

when they liavo made scenes there, they will
proceed to Corsica, the picturesque island
birthplace of Bonaparte, where, you will
remember, most of the action of tho play
takes place.

Malvina Longfellow, years ago, was an
artist's model in America, when she won a
beauty prize, which was a wonderful Grecian
hair-band made of solid gold, with a Syracuse
coin in the centre. . Miss Longfellow owns
that she has often longed to wear it, but she
has never been able to, except for fancy dress.
Now. she will have an opportunity to wear
it on the screen.

. —

He Didn't Know.

NOT aware that Fritzie Brunette was already
possessed of a perfectly good husband, a
Norwegian banker wrote her a naive
little note in which he declared that he had
plenty of good money, and would like to " take
her to wife," addinz, moreover, that upon receipt
of a wired acceptance, he would come himself
and fetch her.

Photo :
Melbourne
Spurr.

WALTER HIERS, the Uappy comedian in Christie
Comedies.

A Novel Competition.

WESLEY BARKY, the little freckle faced
star, has just received an invitation to
be the honorary guest in a Freckles
Contest, to bo held as one of the big attractions
Bt a sports meeting in Jersey City. The contest
will involve all freckled-faced girls and boys in
the states of New Jersey and New York, and it
is expected that there will bo five thousand
participants. 1 wonder if the little film star
will be successful in winning one of the big
prizes that are being offered.

— »-f —

The Luckiest Girl in the World.

LOUISE DUPKE, a littlo actress who has
been on tho slugo for many years, and who
terms herself " the luckiest girl in the
■world," has been selected as a star by the Fan
Film Corporation, to appear in a series of pictures
of girlhood and childhood. The reason for the
epithet lies in the remarkable resomblance of
this girj. to Mary Pickford, whom she under-
studied during tho production of " Pollyanna,''
and whose pupil for a time she was.

Wonderful Plans.

MAY ALLISON has a new home at Beverley
Hilts, which she is sharing with her
mother, brother, and married sister.
The laying out of the grounds is as yet incom-
plete, but Miss Allison is contemplating a
Japanese garden, a tennis court, a swimming
pool, and a summer house in a grove of pines.
I he kennels are already installed for her prize
llclgian police dogs, and another of her plans is
;.-n aviary filled with bright-coloured singing
lirds. /

— +4 —
Do You Remember?

AT a tea party tho other day tho conversa-
tion turned on reminiscences of famous
film players, and during this discussion
I wondered how many other picture-goers
remembered their favourites' earlier careers.
For instance, do you remember when Lilian

Walker and Wally Venn were 'playing together
in Vitagroph comedy drama, or when Maurice
Costello was the chief matinee idol? When
Billie Burke struggled through interminable
episodes of " Gloria's Romance," and when
Kathleen Williams appeared in that first thrilling
jungle serial. When Bryant Washburn was
doing " villains" for Essanay, directing his vil-
lainous machinations against Francis Buahmnu
and Beverley Bayne, or when Margaret Joyee-
lyn and Victor Potel played " Sophie Cluts "
and " Slippery Slim " respectively in Essanay
comedies.

- — —

It Made Him Seasick.

PHILIP ANTHONY had . a most uncom-
fortable experience taking scenes on
hoard a boat, at Sennen Cove, in Corn-
wa'l. The sea was rough, but this did not worry
Mr. Anthony, as he is quite a good sailor, but in
order to keep within range of the camera it was
necessary to anchor the boat, and within a few
seconds from the time the camera man started
work, Mr. Anthony was very seasick.

Cecil Calvert's murderous knife attack came
to .a sudden end, and tho some two hundred
people, gathered on the breakwaters to watch,
shrieked with laughter.

" You cannot imagine what an unpleasant
sensation it is," says Mr. Anthony, " to be
anchored in a boat in a choppy sea."

Fay Filmer.

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Finding Faults in Films.

SPLENDID NEW FEATURE.

EVERY reader who makes a practice
of going to picture shows is at times
irritated by faults that spoil the
story for them.

These faults are either caused by lack of
knowledge or carelessness on the part of
the producer.

The only way to prevent these mistakes
is to publicly point them out. The result
of this should be that they will not occur
again.

Here is a chance for our readers to better
the pictures and win a money prize.

A POSTCARD MAY BRING YOU 5s.

For Instance.

IN a film now showing we see tho adven-
tures of a cowboy eluding the sheriff
and his men. Ho started off on his
horse, clad in a shirt of a most decided
check pattern. But when lie arrived at
tho littlo shack in tho mountains that
same evening, he had changed his%hirb to
a striped one !

This is the sort of thing that spoils an
otherwise beautiful photo-play. •

Have you noticed anything similar ?
If so, send it to me. Address your post-
card : Editor, Film Faults, Picture Show,
Cough House, Cough Square. E.C. 4.

A prize of 5s. will be awarded for every
postcard printed in the Picthrr Show.

The Editor's decision mnst be con-'
sidered final, and no correspondence can
be entered into.

BERTRAM BURLEIQH, MALVINA LONGFELLOW,

whom we are to see as who is piayin(? joint lead

Frank Beresfonl in the »„.„.„ M„ir; .

Famous Lasky version ol " " ™<*'"nel

" The Great Day." which m ,be B- aad c- adaptation

bnd a record run at the oJ J°an Danvers." the
Lyceum Theatre, London. cuccessful stage play.

CONWAY TEARLE and ROSEMARY THEBY
in a coming photo-play, entitled " Whispering
Devils." a film version of Henry Arthur Jones's
dramatic success, " Michael and Bis Lost Angel."

FROM "OVER THERE."

Notes and News from Los Angeles.

Anita Stewart's Dressing-Room.

ANITA STEWART probably lias the most
beautiful " dressing "-room 6"f any star in
the film world. It is built in the fonn of-
a typical Californian bungalow, and comprises
a drawing-room, boudoir and bathroom. The
reception-room is decorated in the Chinese
stylo with a blue Chinese rug and Oriental
draperies. Tho walls are decorated with raro
Chinese prints, and tho high teak-wood chairs
and tables, and tho low, luxuriant divans are all
of the same workmanship. Her boudoir is gay in
rose taffeta and Dresden flowers, the walls
covered with French grey satin. On the floor
are French grey rugs with rose borders, and the
chairs, dressing-table and lounges are carried
out in a delicate shade of ivory. Interior decora-
tion is one of Miss Stewart's hobbies. Clothes
are another, and she confesses to a particular
weakness for furs, ostrjeh feathers and tulk\
She has just added two wonderful wraps of
ermine and sable to her collection.

— — •

A Mischievous Monkey.

DURING the past week the Goldwyn Studios
have been demoralised by the mischievous
tricks of " Tony," a small monkey who
was entrusted with a part in tho now Mabel
Xormand production, " Head Over Heels."
Tho pickles which adorn tho hate of the girls
playing in Jack Pickford's picture, "Just Out
of College," mysteriously disappeared. All tho
icing on a cake which was to bo used in Johnny
Jones's current " Edgar " feature was found
scraped off, when the moment came for using it,
and an irate star reported that a box of candy
that had reached her that morning had been
very thoroughly cleaned up. A search was
promptly instituted for tho thief, and a very
sick and disillusioned littlo monkey was at last
found in an obscure corner of the studio grounds
by his distracted master, on Italian organ- '
grinder. However, " Tony " made up for his
depredations by giving a fine rendering of his
part in Mabel's picture, and Mabel herself was
just thinking of adopting him altogether, when
Aya stepped in and put his foot down with
great and final decision. Aya is Mis-
Normand's prize Chow, and is extremely
haughty and reserved, as most jof these blue-
blooded canines are. He went for that trained
monkoy, and during the brief space of glorious
lifo that ensued it was a puzzle to find which
was tho dog and which was tho monkey. It
took three stage hands to end the engagement,
and Aya is still going about heavily bandaged ;
whilst Tony gibbers and chatters angrily directly
anything on four feet ns much as appears on
tho horizon. Now Miss Nnrmnnd says that,
she has reconsidered her decision to add a
monkey to her menogerie.

Klsik Codp.

FietUrt Show, October 30//* , 1920.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA FOR THE " PICTURE SHOW."

A Hawaiian girl appearing with Edith Roberts in FRANK MAYO'S cigarette should have been all You will never recognise who has been photo-
"Macama." She is LILLY PHILLIPS, a grand the more fragrant considering it was lit by graphed in this artistic pose I It is WESLEY
niece of King Kamehameha of Hawaii. beautiful BETTY BLYTHE. BARRY. He makes a nice girl, does he not ?

MAY ALLISON— Metro Star— with her mother LOUISE GLAUM heard there was a craze in London and Paris for This photograph of MARJORIE
and nephew. Her sisters are standing at the grown-ups to carry dolls. So she bought a walking doll, and is here DAW should bring many fol-
back, one of whom is her business manager. seen taking it for a stroll. lowers to the overall movement

ricture Show," October ZOth, 1920.

Our SfrlencUd Serial Tellxng of a Man's Fight Agatnst Fate artel of a AfVoncterful Love.

Tkc PRICE^of? HIS

The Philosophy of Dyson Mallet.

THE discovery was so totally unexpected,
the shock so tremendous that John
Galloway stood there in the dark room
motionless, while the silence sang in his ears,
and the minutes of that perfect day of his
lushed away into eternity, as Athalie had said.

Their perfect day ! The day snatched from
eternity !

And this was the end of it.
Athalie, already in her sweet bed, thinking —
only heaven knew what her thoughts were.
And here was he, facing the end of his wild
dream, and — retribution.

One more come back from the dead !
And to his credit let it be said that in his
heart Galloway was glad. Glad that this man
had come back to life to expose his miserable
deception, and to show him up for what he was.

In that moment something whispered to him,
something wild and irresponsible, that now at
least ho could fight for the love of Athalie
Railton under ' his own name and his own
identity. He could not fight a dead man for
her, but lie could fight a live one.

The hope died as soon as it was born.
He knew now that all hope of winning Athalie
was at an end. He knew in truth that there
bad never been any hope. He had been be-
musing himself with phantoms ; storing up
tears and bitterness for them both by playing
with his honour.

The momentary flash of the match seemed to
have deepened the gloom, but ho could si ill
make out that dishevelled and collapsed figure
in the chair.

A cold dread clawed at him. The man looked
as if he were dead. He shook himself fiercely,
and quite suddenly became calm.

Now that the sword which had been over-
hanging him had fallen, ho felt a surprising
coolness, a sense of relief.

And as small thoughts tlnsh*aulomatieally
through the mind in times of crisis, the thought
came to him that whatever happened he had
had his great day with Athalie Railton.

That was his. Ho clung to it desperately.
Nothing could rob him of that memory. -

Ho struck another match and lighted the
lamp deliberately.

Mrs. Weston obviously knew nothing about
tho visitor. Knowing the houso ami tho
grounds well, he had apparently come in "across
the lawns and entered by the French window-.
For what reason was not Obvious; unless ho
already knew something about the impersona-
tion, which was more than probable.

Galloway locked the door on the inside, then
he closed tho windows and drew tho blinds,
remembering that mysterious shot which had
come out of tho shrubbery when ho wus in this
very room with Alice Mercer.

Having dono all this to his satisfaction, ho
took another look at Dyson Mallet.

No, he was certainly not dead, because ho
was still snoring slightly. Hut his appearance
w^s deplorable.

Ho woro an old pea-jacket which had oivco
been Navy-bluo anil was now a bottle green,
and under this, a frayed, blue seaman's jersey.
Hoots and trousers were deplorable, und caked
with mud.

His hair was matted and long, and he carried
at least a week's growth of beard.

As Gallowuy watched him, the clock in the
hall struck u single sonorous note.

Half-past nine !

Galloway closed his eyes momentarily, aware
c( a spasm of pain. Athalie was at this moment
s.iving good-night to him.

Tho sound of tho clock striking roused tho
>lecpcr. Ho shifted uneasily and jerked his
lead upright. Galloway was struck by the
j allot of his face. The man looked dreadfully

CHARACTERS IN THE STORY.

JOHN GALLOWAY is saved from the wreck of the
Sweet Alice. When he recovers he is mistaken
lor his friend, Dyson Mallet. He protests, but
no one believes him. Mallet was engaged to

ATHALIE RAILTON, with whom Galloway tails in
love.

lit MA GALE was also on board the Sweet Alice,
and John thinks she too was drowned ; but
one day she conies to see him.

ALICE MERCER writes a letter addressed to Mallet,
hinting at a past love affair. She goes to his
house, and finds Galloway impersonating his
friend. While they arc talking somebody
shoots at them from the aarden.

DYSON MALLET, whom Galloway supposes to be
drowned ; but; after spending a delightful day
with Athalie on her birthday, John returns
home and finds Mallet fast asleep in an armchair
in the smoking room.

ill ; but he smelled of spirits, which perhaps
accounted for it.

Suddenly he opened his ryes, stared full at
John for a minute, and sat upright.

" Hello, Galloway," he said surprisingly.
" Top of the evening to you, old sport ! You
look as scared as if your grandfather's ghost
had come to life and was sitting on your chest.
What's the matter, man ?

It was a minute before Galloway could collect
himself sufficiently to make a reply. Then all
he could say was :

Is that really you. Dyson ? "

" Don't be so fatuous, my dear lad," answered
Mallet. " Who do you think I am — Marley's
ghost, or Hamlet's father ? "

" Well, you can hardly be surprised if I took
you for your own ghost," said Galloway. " All
tlm people who were drowned in the Sweet
Alice seem to be coming to life again. You
have been reported dead, you know, for many
weeks."

" Lay not that flattering unction to yourlsoul,
old man. I'm not nearly dead. I'm sorry I
can't fit myself into your plans to that extent."

Steady with that, Mallet," said John, with
a hint of sternness.

" All right, dear boy," replied Mallet, with a
chuckle. " I was only pulling your leg. Sure
I'm not surprised that you mistook me for a
ghost, and not a very respectable ghost either.
I'm nothing to write homo about — but I am
homo. That's the marvellous thing. Home,
iny boy - home ! "

Ho strqtohed himself luxuriously and nestled
deeper into the capacious chair.

" I'm in an awful state of mud and disrepair.
Kxeuse me making a mess of your chair. Gee !
But it's my chair, isn't it ? That's deuced funny.
Also excuse my rudeness in not getting up.
I'm very comfortable here, but I hope I know
my manners. And the master of the houso
ought to get up to receive his visitors. I'm the
master of the house, am I not ? "

"Certainly you are," replied Galloway,
mystified at the way Mallet was taking matters,
and wondering how far he was acquainted with
the faofs of the situation. He was perfectly
calm and pleasant.

" That's all right then," he wont on. " Clears
the air. IVn the master of the houso disguised
as a deck -w ah. You're my guest. Make your-
self at home, old lad. 1 must sit here ; I'm not
very well, and to tell you tho truth, I'm a littlo
unsteady on the pins. Old failing of mine.
I've been sampling the wine of the country at
tho village inn ; talking with tho gossips, and
so on. Not a soul knew mo from tho Caliph of
all tho Haghdads. Would you mind pouring
me out just a steadier of my whisky ? There
used to bo some in that cupboard."

( lalloway poured out the required refreshment ,
ami Mallet took it. down at one gulp.

" Better," he announced. " decidedly better

than the stuff they've been giving me in the
village. More bite to it. Pre-war stock, I
should imagine. If there was ono thing the
governor knew in the old days it was how to
stock a cellar. But he wasn't very liberal with
it. From now on times' have changed. This is
Liberty Hall, and you are my guest, John, old
man. A nice old game you've been playing while
I've been theoretically among the dear departed,
eh ? Well, aren't «you going to give me your
fist, old sport ? It's not often you have the
pleasure of meeting one who lias come back
from across the Big Divide."

He held out a trembling hand.

" One minute," said Galloway crisply. " Y'ou
are not yourself, Dyson, and you're not capable
of getting Tt clear view of the situation."

" I'm all right, the top half of me," returned
Mallet. " It's only my legs that aro not quite up
to parade form. My brain's as clear as a bell."

Galloway knew this of old. He had often
Been Mallet with a perfectly clear head, although
he was so much the worse for drink that he
could not walk a yard.

" What's the matter ? " he demanded querul-
ously. " Why won't you shake hands ? "

" Do you know who I am ? " demanded
John.

" Sure. You're John Galloway, my old part-
ner and' shipmate. What's the bee in your
bonnet, anyway : "

" Do you know why I am here, and the posi-
tion I am occupying in this house ? "

'" Of course I know," returned Mallet. " I
know every blessed thing about it, and I'm sur-
prised at you, John Galloway. Surprised ami
jiained. But there you are. I always said that
about you strait-laced fellows. When you
break away you go the whole hatful. Your
morals are simply awful, and I'm surprised at
you. Now shake hands."

He was talking quite rationally, anil 'obviously
meant what he said. Galloway took his hand
in silence. Presently he said :

" Whatever you may have heard and what-
ever conclusion you may have come to, Dyson,
1 am glad to tho bottom of my heart to see you
alive.

" I know you are," returned Mallet. . " No
need for tho hot air, old sport. I'm glad to see
you again too, ftnd I don't forget that if it had
not boon for you this happy reunion would never
havo taken place."

" What on earth do you moan, Dyson t "

" Before I said ' good evening ' to the Sweet
Alice and walked daintily oft the deck, you put
two lifebelts on me ; and it was those two life-
belts which brought mo back to Home Sweet
Home in the fulness of time, as the poets say.
Now when a man has two lifebelts, and he gives
one to a pal, he's a good sport. But when ho
gives both to his pal, and keeps none for himself,
lie's a dashed fool, and that's what you are.
John Galloway. But you're a white man, and
we'll just have another little spot to celebrato
this happy birthday."

Galloway frowned at tho word birthday, but
Mallet had evidently used it quite innocently.

" I think you've had enough," said John.

•' Wrong, dear boy," responded the master of
tho house. " I've never known tho time when
I've had enough."

John let him gulp down another small measure
and then faced him seriously.

" Now listen, Dyson," ho said, " whHo I
explain the situation to you. You may know
something, but you cannot possibly know all.
When you do, you will in all probability take a
different view of things, and your opinion of ire
will be less charitahlo." .

"Carry on>"i said Mallet: "I'm listoning.
Just another spot would probably help mo to
appreciate the hoinousness of your stupendous
yCen'.inued on page 8J

Picture Slioir, October 30//* , 1920.

MIMICRY! r

Bujfter Keaton Imitates the Jroses
of Some of tlie Metro Stars.

THE old saying, " Imitation is the sincerest
form of flattery," is proved once more
by the photographs on this page.
Buster Keaton could not help admiring the
beautiful stars of the Metro Flm Company, and
that he has endeavoured to flatter them l>y
imitation is quite obvious from these photo-
graphs.

The artistic poses of May Allison, Viola
Dana, and Alice Lake, were so full of grace
and charm, that Buster decided not to be
outdone. He was quite sure that if he took
particular pains to copy their exact poses, he
could look just as charming and fascinating.
The position with which he had the most
dilViCulty was that of Viola Dana. Buster did
not think he was quite the right type for this.

Was He Successful ?

DO you think Buster was
successful in looking as
fascinating as May Alli-
son, Viola Dana, and Alice
Lake ?

He was very pleased with
himself, and insisted upon
the camera-man taking his
photograph, as he copied the
pose of each of the stars.

Buster's Valuation of a Grin.

BUSTER KEATON used to be a co-worker
with Fatty Arbuckle, but he now ax-ts
in his own comedies for Metro. If you
see one of these comedies, you can be sure of
a hearty laugh. You will notice that Buster
himself rarely smiles on the films. He says :
" I think people get a lot more enjoyment in
watching me on the screen if I don't wear a
silly grin throughout pictures. Anyway, I'm
too busy being tossed and knocked about to
spend much time in smiling."

VIOLA DANA has set BUSTER KEATON a difficult task with this artistic
pose ; and —

— BUSTER does not think it quite suits his style ol beauty I

J'iciurc Show, October 30///, 1920.

"The Price fif, Honour." lCo'tX'°'"

fall from grace. No ? Very well then, I'll go
dry. Cany on with your oration, but make it
il-.prt, as you love me. I am longing to sleep in
i civilised bed once more."

This was altogether a different ending from
anything which John had imagined or dreamed.
When he saw Mallet in the flesh, returned to lifo
and to the inheritance which had been filched
from him, Galloway had expected storm and
l.iitcr upbraiding.

But Dyson not only took it very calmly, but
found plenty of amusement in it.

Calloway told the whole tale from the begin-
ning. He told everything with meticulous care,
omitting only one important figure from the
picture — Athalie Railton.

Dyson took it all as if it wereStlie funniest
thing in the world, and this was not because he
had been drinking. Calloway knew well that
Mallet could sometimes, in those circumstances,
be a very ugly and dangerous customer.

" John," he said, ' you're a jewel ! Fancy
you going and doing the stage villain act all
that much. 'Pon my word, you have surprised
me, John. The nerve of it ! But after all, it
wasn't altogether your own choosing. It was
pushed on you in the first place."

"That's true enough," answered John. " But
remember that I could have stopped the whole-
thing at any moment with a little firmness."

Mallet winked solemnly.

" That's the worst of you, John. You're so
dashed weak."

John felt almost aggrieved that Dyson 'took
it all so calmly.

" You don't seem very much upset about it,"
lie remarked.

" Upset," retorted Mallet. " Why should I
be ? My dear lad, 1 was not using this domicile
myself. You wero perfectly welcome to make
use of it while 1 was away — welcome as the
flowers in spring. It has not come to any harm
apparently. You wouldn't rob me. Kven if I
had been well and truly dead, you would have
•Jirown up the sponge sooner or later, John, and
told the lawyer people all about it."

" 1 should certainly have done that," said
Calloway.

" I know you would. You've got too much
conscience to play the villain, John, yards too
much. You'll never get on. I expect that suit
you've got on and your board and lodging are
about all you've debited my account with."

" That is exactly all," said John.

"'T thought so. And you're welcome to them
my boy. You're welcome to stop hero as long
as you like as my guest, provided you acknow-
ledge me as master of the house. Must be
master of my own house, you know. And you
are welcome to a go at that bottle if you'll pour
me out just a spot. This talking is dry work."

" Not another drop," said! John resolutely.

Mallet frowned, and stood up with a jerk.

For a moment he stood unsteadily, then a
swift grey pallor came over his face. He
clutched at the air, swung round violently, and
fell with a crash on his face.

John was not quick enough to catch him. He
was alarmed. This did not look like mere
drunkenness. The grey pallor had faded, and
already he had gone deathly white.

With great difficulty John lifted him back
into his chair, and as he undid the knotted
choker round the man's muscular throat, Dyson
opened his ej'es and smiled faintly.

" What was that ? " asked Calloway sharply.
" Are you ill, Dyson 1 '■'

" ' That,' my dear boy," replied Dyson, " was
my heart. In my advanced years I am de-
veloping a heart, and at unforeseen moments it
goes back on ine even as my legs do. They tell
mo it is the result of my night out after the
Sweet Alice went down. John, dear boy, I am
hurt with you. You haven't even asked mo to
tell you tlio moving story of my adventures."

I'm sorry," said John. " I've been so full of
my own villainy."

" Forget it, my dear boy," said Mallet. " Do
you remember what old Billy O'Farrcl used to
say about every man haying his price ? Tho
pi ico of his honour — do you remember it t
Dear old Billy ! I sold mine years ago, for the
price of an old shoe. You thought you had
> old yours, John, but you hadn't. Take it from
me. 'You would havo backed out before- tho
i bird act. You would never have taken the
i rize, John — not on those terms."

Something in the man's voice made John's'
heart sink. The mocking, good-humoured smile
was full of knowledge. Did he know more than
he pretended ? Did he know all about Athalie ?

Whatever he knew, his frank good-humour
was irresistible. . Whatever had happened since
the wreck of tho Sweet Alice, had changed htm
in some respects for the better.

I'll tell you my horrible tale, John. When
I tripped off the deck of the Sweet Alice I knew
no more, as they soy in all the best serial fiction.
When I began to take an interest in my sur-
roundings again I was on board a whaler called
the William Johnson. Ye gods, what a name !

" It seems when the William Johnson picked
me up I was very wet. I had been washing
about in the sea for thirty-eight hours, and your
two lifebelts had kept me afloat all the time.
Fortunately I floated the right side up, or this
tale would be shorter than it is, and it's not very
long now.

" The William Johnson was on the^way to the
fishing grounds north of the Orkneys. I asked
the captain to put into port with me.

" I pointed out to him that I w-as a country
gentleman of considerable opulence, though I
confess I did not look anything like it. I
promised that if he put into port with me he
should be suitably, rewarded. But he said that
lie had heard that tale before, and it was never
anything like the truth. So there you are.

" I went to the fishing grounds, and wo hunted
the elusive whale. Not bad sport either, but I
was too ill with this heart of mine really to
enjoy it.

I landed at Hull two days ago, and here I
am ; and if you're not glad to see me, old sport,
you might pretend to lie."

The Decision.

1AM." said John quickly.
" I know you are. Well, what are you
going to do now * "
" I'm going," returned Galloway.
" Going ? When, where, why '! Man alive,
what are you going for ? "
John smiled sadly.

" It's a pretty poor game I've played, Dyson,"
he-said, '" and now that you havq come back
and are so tfecent about it, I feel it worse than I
did before. I must get away at once."

" But, my son, I don't want you to go. I
want you to be my guest just as long as you
like. I know you haven't a penny in tho
world."

" That's why I'm going," said John grimly.
" I'm big enough audi strong enough to earn a
living for myself I hope."

*' You always were pretty stiff in the back,"
remarked Dyson sourly. " But what's the
hurry ? Besides, it isn't fair to me. It's up to
you to do the handsome thing to-morrow. You
will have to tell the startled population that
you've been suffering under a delusion, and
that I am the real master of the house. Other-
wise, in my present state, I stand a chance of
being booted out."

" Dyson," said Galloway, with the first signs
of agitation. " I can't stay. It's— it's impos-
sible. You see, I've played a pretty low-down
game on the neighbours and so on, and I can't
lace it out. Don't make me, old man. As to
your identity, I'll soon put that all right."

He sat down at the table, took pen and paper,
and dashed off t he following statement :

" I, John Galloway, hereby declare that I
have . for over three months deliberately and
wilfully impersonated my late partner, Dyson
Mallet. Tlio holder of this paper is the true
Dyson Mallet.

" John Galloway."

Mallet took it mechanically.

•' Pretty strong, isn't it ? " he asked drily.

" Not> nearly strong enough," said Galloway.

Mail. • shrugged his shoulders and put tho
paper in his pocket.

" You haven't by any chance since you've
been horc met a — a girl from tho village named
Alice Mercer, I suppose ? "

" I have," replied John. " She came here late
one night, the same way as you came — through
these windows."

" Ah ! Did she — cr — did she mistake you for
me ? "

" No, she saw through me immediately."
" Ah ! "

Calloway went to the other end of -the room
and took a turn or two up and down, deep in
thought. This was not his business,' and he

had no right to interfere or say anything.
Mallet had behaved extremely well to him. He
should be the last person to criticise Mallet's
behaviour. But he decided to speak his mind
on the subject. . • >

" Dyson," he said, confronting him abruptly,
" I believe Alice Mercer is a good girl, and very
much in. love with you."

A low, musical snore answered him.

Mallet's head had dropped over his shoulder.
His mouth was wide open. He was fast asleep.

Galloway opened the windows softly and
stepped out on to the lawn. He was in white
flannels, and hatless, but he gave no thought to
this.

There was one unalterable determination in
his mind. He must get aWay at once, and for
good. . "

This was a hallowed spot for him, and he must
never see it again.

The Next Day.

WITH regard to the remaining hours of
that night, where lie went and what he
• did, Galloway was never afterwards
very clear.

Now and then, as he tramped blindly on
through the moonlit darkness, his thoughts
strayed to Portallock Bay, and the greatest day
of all, to which this was the conclusion.

He saw the sun rise, and realised that he was
on a road. Some time afterwards he began to
take a dull interest in his whereabouts and his
condition.

-He was conscious for the first time of extreme
weariness and faintness, the latter probably
owing to lack of food.

His last meal was a very light one of cakes
and bananas, which he and Athalie had shared
as they sat on the Wishing Stone in Portallock
Bay.

Early rising Iandworkers passed at rare in-
tervals and favoured him with polite stares.
He assumed that in his white flannels and with-
out a cap he was a conspicuous object.

To make matters worse, he found that his
trousers were mud-stained to -the knees. He
remembered vaguely falling into a ditch before
he struck the high road.

He realised the disadvantages of coming away
in such a hurry, and so ill-equipped for travel.
He had no money ; he had provided himself
with a little when he started out the previous
morning with Alhalie, but on returning lie hail
mechanically replaced the remainder in tho
desk where he kept such spare cash as he per-
mitted himself to make use of.

Anyway, it was Dyson Mallet's, and not his
own, so ho was glad he had none with him.

Nevertheless, ho foresaw an unpleasant time
iu the immediate future.

But tho chief thing which distressed him was
weariness. He had without realising it walked
a good many miles, some of them at a good pace.

Ho came upon a deserted looking barn with
an open door and a huge inviting pile of clean
straw inside.

In a few minutes he was inside, curling him-
self up in tho straw like a dog. Almost as soon
as he had done so he was asleep.

He seemed to have been there about five
minutes when he awoke with a start. As u
matter of fact, he had been asleep for moro than
six hours. It was past noon.

The first thing of which he was conscious of was
a face peering in at the entrance to the barn.

It bobbed out of sight, and almost imme-
diately appeared again. Thore was a murmur
of conversation from certain parties unseen.

Galloway became amusedly conscious that
the man who was peering at him so intently was
a policeman in uniform. Obviously, by his red
face, the village policeman.

He heard somebody say in a muffled whisper :

" That's 'im right enough ! "

Golloway smiled encouragingly.

" Do you want me f " ho asked.

" YTs," said tho surprised policeman, and
immediately stepped into full view. Ho was
followed by half a dozen men, most of them'
carrying useful .sticks.

" You know what I want you for ? " said tlio
policeman boldly.

"I'm afraid I don't," replied Galloway.
" Unless it is for trespassing in this barn ? "

" It's not that," replied tho policeman. " You
answer tho description of a man wanted for
murder — the muraer of ft man named ))> -on
Mallet."

{To be continued next ws^k.)- '

Picture Show, October 10th, 1920.

THE EXPRESSIONS OF ALLA NAZIMOVA.

(Special to the "Picture Show. ")

NAZIMOVA.

The Star Wko Has ProvedLTkat Age Doesrv't Matter.

Doubt.

ALLA NA-
ZIMOVA
has given
us a new thrill
by her first
films. With
" Revelation, "
"Eye for an
E v c," and
"The Red
Lantern," Na-
zi m o v a has
proved the truth of all the critics have said
in her favour.

Nazimova has proved to us that age docs
not matter to the real artiste, for although
over forty years of age, the Russian star
has all the fascination of a young girl,

A Hard Life.

HER life has been a real hard one.
Her first public appearance was
as a pianist. Then she added
the violin to her list of accomplish-
ments ; but her success in music did |
not satisfy her and she decided to
become an actress.

As a means of attaining her am-
bition, she joined a touring com-
pany, and travelled through Russia
with them, stopping at villages as well
as at towns, enduring all sorts of con-
ditions and discomforts, and working as only
a member of a repertoire company must work.

The boards were never allowed to grow cold.
When the company was not playing, they
were busily rehearsing the next play to be
given. Costumes were made out of nothing
but odds and ends by the members of the
company in brief snatches between rehearsals
and performances.

Gloried In Trials.

SLEEP and money were practically un-
known things. The uncertain box office
receipts often provided little more than
was sufficient to pay the bare expenses, and
Nazimova tells of many times when the
entire company went hungry for days at a
time. But Nazimova, instead of being daunted
by these trials, simply gloried in* them. She
loved the uncertainty of it all — there was
always something new, some opportunity,
some way of making ends meet, which was
what Nazimova never failed to profit by.

It was when the Russian players, of which
Nazimova was a member, decided to go to
America that Opportunity opened its doors
to her. She was seen in one of Ibsen's plays,
and was offered an opportunity to play a part
in a big Broadway theatre.

But there was one clause in the agreement
that Nazimova listened to with dismay. The

part was in English ; but for a moment only
did Nazimova frown, the next moment she
smiled. Could they give her a little time in
which to learn the language V

English in Six Months.

THE manager promised her six months ; he
could give her no longer. The little
star agreed, and the contract was drawn
iij), and she actually signed the agreement to

' I see you

realised that the
words she must
speak might
lose a little of
their meaning
by her impel led
pro n unciation,
she decided to
supply the de-
ficiencies by
means of ges-
tures.

She studied the appearance of Ibsen's charac-
ters. For the part of Hcdda Gabler, she ac-
quired a tall personality by « costume of
sweeping lines ; for the child wife, Nora, in
" A Doll's House," she wore scanty, short
gowns that made her seem in truth a
child. All this was excellent prepara-
tion for the cinema.

For as one critic wrote. " No one
understands a word these Rus-
sians are talking about, but thero
is one language that is universal —
the language of the soul — and the
one- who spoke that best waa
Nazimova."

ALLA
NAZIMOVA

If you want to write her, her
address is :

ALLA NAZIMOVA,

Metro Studio,
Hollywood,

California.

appear in Ibsen's plays in English in six
months' time, before she knew a word of
English.

What these six months meant to Nazimova,
she alone must know, and because she

Her Secret of Success.

ER first appearance brought
her a triumph that has
lasted through every 'play
in which she ha .appeared, and it is the
same with her screen plays. Realism is
always carried to the highest degree.
But her success has been won by un-
united patience, unlimited endurance,
and unlimited ambition, which has
made the appearance of her name in a
theatre the signal for a crowded hoase.

It was during her New York engage-
ment in " Bella Donna," in 1912, that
Mnie. Nazimova was married to the
man who had been her leading man for
many seasons, and who has appeared in
many of her screen plays, Charles Bryant.

A Love Match.

IN Nazimova's pictures there is a conspicuous
absence of love-making, that is the love-
making of the ordinary " garden " variety.
But in real life, when Nazimova waves away
her big, blue car and climbs into her husband's
two-seater, to drive from the studio to their
beautiful home in the Hollywood Hills, and i)
rewarded by an adoring glance from him, we
know that the song that says " And we'll
weather life together in the good, old-fashioned
way " applies to a great genius equally as well
as to you and me. Our friend, the critic,
would say again, " There^is- a universal lan-
guage— of the soul — and the one who speaks it
best is Nazimova."

NEWS, NOTES, AND OPINIONS BY FRED K. ADAMS.

Charlie in the Balkans.

A RECENT paragraph recording tho
views of Mr. A. J. Xydias, the
Balkan film expert, has brought the
following letter from a reader. My corre-
spondent " C. W. T.," says : " I was
surprised to see the statement that ' to
ihe majority o"f picture-goers in the Balkan
states, Charlie Chaplin is unknown ! '
Now I have spent five years in the Balkans
and Turkey and can safely say that Charlie
is a ' great draw,' and is very far from
heing unknown, especially in Macedonia.
1 have seen on more than one occasion a
crowd waiting at a picture-house hours
before the show commenced, simply be-
cause the posters said ' Charlot.' I
Mill admit that the majority of films to be
seen are French and Italian, but I will
never say that ' Charlie ' is unknown in
the Balkans." This is a fine testimonial
to the comedian's universal popularity.

"My Most Difficult Scenes."

SPEAKING generally, the most diffi-
cult achievement, and therefore
the most gratifying success, that
falls to the lot of the producer is getting tho
artiste to realise the significance of the
insignificant. With this in mind, I recall
an incident in a recent film in which I was
endeavouring to portray the momentary
i!i rill experienced by a man and a woman
v ho, meeting accidentally, suddenly be-

< ome aware of the fact that each is the

< ownterpart of the other. I wanted to
picture this graphically by way of a per-
fectly natural incident on a golf course.
The man is just about to strike the ball

DALLAS CAIRNS, the producer of a
number of fine British films which will
shortly be before the public.

when the woman comes along and claims it.
" I think that is my ball," she says, and
tho man, although unconvinced, hands it
over. As he does so, thoir hands meet,
»md a hinge of tho story depends upon tho
looks oxchanged — tho " business " be-
tween tho pair which is to express magnetic
attraction that each has for the other.
According to the story, tho man wa*
married and tho woman a coquette, and
that glanco was intended to leave no room
for doubt as to tho nature of tho situation.
Jn order to secure evon a closo approach to

what I wanted, I had to " take " nearly a
dozen times. The difficulty -is to get your
artist to " feel " tho psychology of the
scene to be enacted, and to give you, in
such incidents as I have described, the one
expression that will convey tho producer's
conception of the part of the story.
Screen acting, in reality is a mental process,
and the successful artist merely appears
to be natural."

Dallas Caibns.

The Ape as Actor.

MOST picture-goers are familiar with
the humorous monkey actor of
screen comedies, Now an announce-
ment states that we are to be introduced
to an ape which plays a strong dramatic part
in a new film, called " The Evolution of
Man." The " monks' " mission is to
prove that Darwin was correct. If this
sort of thing continues, we shall no doubt
shortly have ape actors in hero parts, then
what will become of our handsome leading'
men 1

The Love of the Strong.

"IT is poignantly human for us mortals to
I express a preference for the thines we
can do best," remarked William
Farnum recently. " Possibly the trend
is reversed, and we do best those things
for which we harbour a strong natural
predilection." At any rate, this popular
artiste sets it down as a fact that he
never feels so thoroughly in his element,
and so attuned to life and art as when
interpreting the character of a strong
man — "strong" in the best sense of the
word, a welding of physical prowess and
spiritual power. Given a part that con-
tains both elements, and he is in the happy
hunting ground of the artiste.

Lessons We Learn From the

Films.

Most people want what they want
till they get it, and then they don't want
it.

* » »

The young lady with a bank account
needs no make-up box.

* » »
A good dinner and a pretty woman are

the two things in life a man tires of
least.

* • »

It is useless to try to drown sorrows
in wine — they are all expert swimmers.
» * *

When the dark hour comes men drink
whisky, and women drink tea.

This Week's Best Films.

THE following is a list of the best
photo-plays which are being re-
leased for exhibition at the
cinemas during this weok, and the
names of the star artistes:

Jury "The House of In trigue. ' '

Peggy May.

Vitagraph "In Honour's Web."

Harry Morey.

F.L.F.S. " Love Insurance."

Bryant Washburn.
W. <C- F. .. .. " The Poor Rich Man."
Francis Bushman & Beverley Bayne.

Kew Bio "A Woman's Law."

Olive Tell.
Gaumont .."The Garden of Poisoned

Flowers."

Madeleine Seve.
Gaumont . . . . " The Silver Lining."

Bomb. Billy Wells.
Walturdaw " The Rivor's End."

Marjorfe Daw.
ld"al " Wuthering Heights."

Milton Ros.mer.

. ;.—„"»; ^ MARSHALL NEILAN, Sen. and Jan., have a ride on the little
:::r.-.: boy's tricycle. " Daddie " does not look as if he ii enjoying it
jVV^' very much. Above : yon see PAT O'MALLEY playins with kiddici
wbo are in the cast ol " Dinty," a new Neilan photo-play.

Pkti he Show Aht Si tim.kmkst. October 30<A. 1920

30<//, 1920.

EVERY picturegocr admires the wonderful "kiddies'
who entertain us on the films. Probably many
children envy them, thinking that acting for the
films must be all play ; but if they could spend a little
while in a cinema studio, they would realise that the
" kinema kiddies " work very hard indeed. Often the same
8ccnc-has to he enacted over and over again, before it
pleases the producer, and this is very tiring and monotonous.

They certainly deserve their playtime, and once they
commence their games they have a real rollicking time,
for it is the children who know how to work well that know
also how to " play " in t he real sense of the word.

SUCCESS SCENAMGI8T.

ADVICE FROM JOHN EMERSON AND ANITA LOOS.

PAT O'MALLEY keeps himself in trim by using
. . two "kiddies " as dumb-bells. In the picture above, you

-J3 see MARSHALL NEILAN, JUN., taking his revenge on _ *V—

WESLEY BARRY lor winning one of their games. v«mm

" MOW," I asked, toying delicately

ff with my chicken croquette, dex
one set about becoming a success-
ful scenario writer i "

And then I blushed, for as that celebra-
ted cinematic combination, John Emerson
and Anita Loos, said themselves, they
are- asked that question at least nine times
a day. Yet it is a question upon which
t ho moss never grows ; second in interest
and popularity only to that classic query :
" How does one become a movie star i
And my duty to readers of the PlCTOBE
Show had to be done. Therefore, 1
remained adamant.

John Emerson laughed good temperedly,
or rather, ho gave one of those chuckles
which show a man is thoroughly enjoying
the humour of the moment. Anita Loos,
hitherto most animated, smiled wanly,
and leaning back in her chair, dreamily
intimated that she was going to let her
husband do the talking. A woman,
she said, who had just been to Paris
purchasing the number of frocks she
hod couldn't be expected to concentrate
on business.

" Bought Paquin up," interposed her
spouse fondly, gazing with pride upon the
miniature brunette beside him.

A Ticklish Question.

HOW," I began again, sternly closing
my ears to the alluring strains of
the Savoy orchestra.
" How does one become a successful
stage dramatist ? " returned tall John,
with a smile.

" Duimo," I replied weakly and collo-
quially. "Partly, I suppose, by studying
the technicalities of the stage, fore and
aft — I mean before and behind the
scenes."

" Exactly," was the rejoinder. " One
does not sit down to write a stage pin
without seme working knowledge of tho
stage itself, or a pretty good idea of what
is acceptable and suitable for presenta-
tion upon it.

" I remember that when I left the
stage, where I had been both actor and
director, for the motion picture field,
and decided to become a film director,
I went to D. W. Griffith.

" ' What do you know about picture-
making ? ' he asked.

" ' I don't know a tiling ! ' I
promptly replied.

" ' Then,' said the great one, " I
guess you're the man I want. I
thought, perhaps, you were one of
those fellows who know everything.
What's your idea of a salary ? '

" ' I don't want a nickel till I know
my business,' I told Griffith. ' All I -
want is to have a thorough look round.-

" Griffith, however, insisted on my
receiving the salary to winch I had
been accustomed.

" ' Well,' I said, ' that's your affair.
But during my time of voluntary proba
tion I did nothing but investigate all Ih
branches of picture-making, so that when
came to take up the megaphone in earnest,
I really knew the ins-and-outs of my
business. And now that I am concen-
trating— in collaboration with my wife,
of course — upon the scripts and the
cutting of our pictures, in addition to
casting them, and supervising their
direction, I find the all-round knowledge I
first acquired is standing me in godQ stead.

First Class Advice.

MY advice, then, to would-be seen-
ario writers, or indeed to anyone
who seeks to shine in any other
branch of film work, is this : Seize any
opportunity for studying film conditions
first-hand which presents itself, however
humble the job or small the salary, for
thus you will gain sound practical know-
ledge, above all price, which inevitably

will N ad to better fchinCB -if you have tho
material for Better things within you !

I'liloituiiatelv, the war and various con-
dition^, have s<> retarded tho progress of
the British picture that it is no exaggera-
tion to say that, generally speaking, the '
Industry over bete [is ten years behind the
t inn's ; but there are signs hero and there
which indicate that steps are being taken
in the right direction, and it will not be s=o
long before the scenario writer and others
come into their film kingdom in England.

Delayed Releases.

MUCH can bo learned, too, from a
careful study of the films them-
selves, though here, again, you
are at a disadvantage."

" Gracious ! " broke in Anita, suddenly
aroused to action. " John and I have not
seen a new American picture over here
since we arrived ! New to you, of course,
but three or four years old in tho States,
with technique, etc., correspondingly
behind the times ! "

" The late release of pictures here is, of
course, a serious problem," 1 admitted.

" What you need so urgently are more
and more picture theatres," put in Mr.
Emerson. That would solve the pro-
blem considerably. But, in any case, I
think every facility should be given to
serious students of screen drama to view
films as soon after completion as possible,
in order that the knowdedge gained should
be thoroughly up-to-date."

' Another thing which the scenario
writer should study carefully," added
Miss Loos, " is his market. Failure to do
1 1 1 is is responsible for half the journalistic
disappointments, both in filmland and

JOHN EMERSON.

out of it. When you write your story,
bear in mind some specific actress or
theatrical type for whom it is most suited,
and then send it to the quarter where ic
will be most appreciated. You'll save
yourself a lot of time and disappointment,
and even if your scenarios come back at
first,' you will have taken a sure step in
the direction of success."

Miss Loos, it may be added, in, con-
clusion, has written successful screen
plays herself since the tender age of six-
teen, when John Barrymore played in her
first story, " The New York Hat ! "

May Hebschel Clabke.

Picture Show, October 30?//, 1920.

A SPLENDID SHORT STORY OF REVENGE AND LOVE. (Special to the "Picture Show ")

3Ce MAN WHO

FOGGOT",

JAMES
KNIGHT

as Seth.

S the
loca I
train
neared the
little fishing
village o f
Torsea, on
the Devon-
shire coast, two
men, wearing the
R.N.R. uniform,
began to lookout
the of window of
the carriage.

They were both young. The elder of the two was
Jim HaUibar, skipper of one of H.M.S. minesweepers.

He was a thick-set man. about medium height,
v ith a strong but rather sullen face.

The other was a lithe, well-set-up man, about
twenty-two, fair-haired and decidedly handsome.

His name was Seth Maiden, and he had served
as first mate to Jim Hallibar on the minesweeper,
which they had left at the bottom of the North Sea.

Both had been picked up. and they were now on
leave while the Admiralty found them another ship.

They had been friends from boyhood, and the
only thing that had ever come between them was
pretty Mona Jennifer, whom they had left in the
\iilage, wresting a living from the sea in competition
with the fishermen of Torsea to keep an invalid father
who at one time had owned a fleet of fishing boats.

Jt was of Mona that both men were thinking now,
but neither expressed his thoughts.

Each felt, as they neared the station, that the
day would surely come when Mona would have to
choose between them, and in each man's heart was
the disturbing thought that when that day came
their life-long friendship would be severed.

Seth Maiden broke the silence that had marked
the last stage of the journey by going to the rack
and getting down their luggage, with the remark :

" Here we are, Jim. You get outside, and I'll
throw the bags to you."

The train pulled up as he. spoke, and, having
arranged with a porter to take their luggage to
the cabin they had always shared when ashore,
both men strolled down to the beach.

The fishing boats were just coming in, and as
they neared the little jetty they noticed a commotion
around a boat in the stern of which stood a strikingly
pretty girl. Blue-eyed, with a wealth of hair the
colour of ripe corn, and a gloriously youthful figure,
the outlines of which showed through the rough
fisherman's jersey that she wore.

She was gazing with an Amused smile at two men
who were quarrelling as to who should unload her boat.

" Tarpaulin Jack and Salty l'elton," said Seth.
" We'd better get down."

Before they reached the beach the quarrel between
the two men had developed into a light. The two
minesweepers took no notice, but went, straight
up to Mona, who welcomed them with a clad smile.

After they had exchanged greetings, Seth and Jim
began to unload Mona's boat, and just as they had
finished the fight ended in a victory for Tarpaulin Jack.

He came running to the boat to get his reward by
unloading it for Mona, but when he saw the task
had already been accomplished by Jim and Seth,
lie turned on the latter in a raging temper.

Seth stepped up to him with a quiet smile, but
before he could say anything, Jim pushed him
on one side.

Hallibar's face was black with rage. One of his
worst faults had always been an uncontrollable
temper, and it had got complete possession of him
now.

" You clear out, or I'll smash you 1 " he shouted
to Tarpaulin.

The fisherman stepped back Involuntarily as
Hallibar advanced towards him, his huge fists
clenched and his aggressive jaw stuck out. But a
jeering laugh from the fishermen who had gathered
round told him he would have to fight.

Ever since Seth and Jim had gone minesweeping.
Tarpaulin Jack had been the bully of the village,
and, to" give him credit, he was no coward. He saw
now that if he wished to maintain a semblance of
the reputation he had made for himself, he must
accept Hallibar's challenge.

Wasting no time in words, he struck out at Hallibar.
The latter did not even attempt to dodge the blow,
but took it on his neck as he closed with his opponent.
The fight— if fight it. could be called —lasted but
a few minutes. Against Hallibar's tremendous
strength, Tarpaulin had nothing to pit except a
strength much inferior; for he had no science in
wrestling or boxing.

Having battered his man into a state of semi-
insensibility, Hallibar dragged him by sheer
strength into the water and thrust his head under
the surf. His blind rage had completely got the
better of him, and he meant to kill the man who
had defied him. He would undoubtedly have done
so had not Seth, obeying Mona's frightened call of
*' Stop it, Seth 1 Jim will kill him ! " rushed up
and pulled Jim off.

He succeeded in doing this, but as soon as he
was on the beach. Jim rushed at Salty and knocked
him down. Then, catching hold of Tarpaulin in
one hand and Salty in the other, he shouted, like
a madman :

"You two big hulkers quarrelled as to which
of you should carry up Miss Mona's catch, and you'll
earry it hctween you, or I'll give you another lesson ! "

Banging their heads together, he released them,
and the two vanquished rivals meekly picked up
the catch and proceeded to take it to Mona's cottage.

Hallibar loaded himself with the nets, and then
looked up to sec where Mona was. To his chagrin,
he saw she was walking away on the arm of Seth
Maiden.

A suppressed chuckle from some of the fishermen
did not improve Jim's temper, but though he wheeled
quickly, he could not catch the one who. was laughing
at his discomfiture.

From the moment that Jim Hallibar saw Mona
Jennifer walking off on the arm of Seth Maiden,
Hallibar's jealousy completely swamped his life-
long friendship for his chum.

He could see that Mona preferred Seth, but he
was not sportsman enough to accept his defeat.

Instead, he spent his days planning how he could
get the better of his rival by any means— underhand,
if necessary — and marry Mona.

The Challenge.

THE annual athletic tournament put an idea into
his head. By virtue of his great strength,
HaUibar was regarded as the champion wrestler
of the village, and when he learned that Seth had
entered for the competition, he went up to the
organiser and issued a challenge to meet tlic winner,
feeling certain it would be Seth. In this way, he
took an unfair advantage of his one-time chum :
for Seth woidd have to take a lot out of himself
wrestling his way to the final, whereas he — Jim —
would be quite iresh when he was called upon to
meet him.

Ever since the incident on the beach, thctwo men
had continued to share the same cabin, and to all
intents, Hallibar was the same as he always had been.

Seth, one of the most open of men, never suspected
that Jim was working against him in an under-
hand way.

s He knew Jim was his rival, but. he thought that
when it came to the question as to who was to win
Mona, the girl herself would decide, and that if Jim
lost her, he would take his defeat as he himself
would do. Therefore, he was more than surprised
when one night, just before the tournament, Jim
came to him with a proposition that jf they met
in the wrestling match, it should decide who should
have the privilege of proposing to Mona. Jim's
proposition was that the man who lost should
relinquish his claim and give the other an open field.

The proposition did not strike Seth as being at
all satisfactory.

" I don't think Mona would care to kuow about
this sort of arrangement, Jim," he said. " I am
quite aware that you love her, and that you wish
to win her as much as I do : but do you think it is
fair that the matter should be decided in a wrestling
match between us ? Why not let Mona choose
between us ? I give you my word that If she accepts
you, 1 will be the first man to congratulate you,
and I should expect you to do the same ifjl happened
to be the lucky one."

" You mean to say you're afraid ? " 6ncercd
HaUibar.

Seth's jaw snapped and his eyes lighted Up
dangerously, but he kept his temper.

Nobody knows better than you, Jim Hallibar,
that that is a lie." he said quietly.

"As you will. 1 accept your challenge, with the.
resaf&non that neither the winner nor the loser
ever tells Mona the real reason of the match.'*'

" That's a bet." said Jim, holding out his hand.

Jim shook ami then went out for a walk along
the beach.

MARJORIE
VILLIS as
Mona.

The Day of the Tournament.

HE day of the tournament came round, and
Seth easily wrestled his way to the final.
He won this, but he had a pretty tough

s f rug_
Then the
referee

0 r d e red

an interval, so that
Seth should have
time to recover
from his exertions.

As Seth was walking
away to rest, Gilks, the
village organist, who had charge of the sports, told
him that Admiral Ralston wished to speak to him.
Seth looked up and saw the admiral smiling at him.
By his side was a remarkably pretty girl, and, aftci
the admiral had congratulated him on winning the
competition, he introduced Seth to the girl as his
niece, Violet Selwyn.

" You're one of the principals in the great event
of the day, I understand," said Miss Selwyn to
Seth.

■' Yon mean my match with my chum, Jim
Hallibar ? " said Seth. " Oh, it's purely a friendly
bout 1 Jim is the local champion, you know, and
he offered to wrestle the winner of the competition.

1 don't suppose I shall have much of a chance, "out I
mean to try all 1 know."

' " And I feel certain you will win," said Miss
Selwyn, smiling at the handsome sailor.

Seth thanked her, and, as he turned away, he
caught sight otMona. The. girl's face was contracted
into an ugly frown, and he could see she was jealous.

He was about to go to her, when the referee called
him and Jim Hallibar to explain the conditions of
the match, and Seth had no opportunity of speaking'
to Mona before the contest.

When the two men faced each other, it was plain
to be seen that alt the natural advantages rested
with Jim Hallibar. He was bigger and stronger, but
the first minute's wrestling showed that Seth was
the cleverer. Time after time, he wriggled out of
the holds Jim put on him, but at last Jim got a vice-
like grip which could not be shaken olf, and he
threw Seth heavily, winning the first fall.

During the interval. Seth went straight to Mona,
Now that the man she loved was in danger of defeat.
Mona forgot her jealousy of Miss Selwyn.

" I do hope you win, Seth I " she said ; and her
eves told mere than the spoken wish.

" I mean to have a good try,-" said Seth modestly.
" If I can get the next fall, 1 think 1 shall have a
chance."

The second bout provided one of the toughest
struggles ever seen in Torsea. Time and time again
it looked as if Seth must be thrown, but his cleverness
was more than a match for Jim's superior strength :
and, amid tremendous excitement, Seth at last
got a leg and arm hold, and put Jim flat on his back.

The last bout was even more exciting. Jim's
strength was now on the wane, and Seth did as
much attacking as his heavier rival.

Once Jim caught Seth by the waist, and, exerting
all his strength, whirled him round and round as
though he had been an infant, ending up by throwing
him heavilv. But Seth was on his feet like I cat,
and, rushing in before Jim could collect himself,
he again attacked. Jim got another terrible hold,
but once again Seth wriggled clear, and, again
rushing in, he put Jim to the ground with a swinging
hip throw, and. pouncing on him before he could
recover, he put him on his back and won the match

Hie cheers that greeted the result showed that
Seth's victory was very popular, but Jim took his
defeat with very bad grace, and it was only with
great reluctance that he shook hands with his con-
queror.

Seth was rushing towards Mona. when the admiral
called him, and insisted that he should come to tci
with him and his niece. Beth would much sooner
have gone to tea with Mona, but he did not care to
offend the admiral • so, thinking Mona would under-
stand, he accepted the invitation.

A Lover's Quarrel.

THAT was the beginning of [an estrangement
between the lovers. Mona began to avoid
Seth, and was invariably cool w hen he came
to her father's cottage. i *

Matters went on in this fashion till the admiral
got Seth an appointment as chief officer on n trans-
port bound for Salonlca. Both got the admiral's
letter offering him the berth and orderiug him to co
by the early morning train to London to join the
ship. There was barely time for him to pack his
kit and catch the train. He would not bo able to Me
Mona to say good-bye, nnd In his dilemma he asked
Jim to lake a note to the girl in which he explained
(Continued in page 18.)

J'iclure Show, October 30f/i, 1920.

TOM SANTSCHI.

TKe Star witk the Compelling Kyes WKich
Have Conquered Many ^A^ild Animals.

IT soems very strange to talk of Tom Santsehi
as A " vetoran " when ho is still in vigorous
young manhood, and yet ho is a " veteran "
where films aro concerned, for ho commenced his
motion picturo career in 1906 when they were
very much in their infancy.

Like many other film actors, Santsehi acted
on the legitimate stage before he felt the call of
tho '-' Silver Screen." v

Exciting Adventures with Wild Animals.

HIS first engagement was with the Selig Film
Company and ho had many exciting
adventures in those days.
He had a wonderful power over wild animals
and he handled as many as twenty-two ferocious
beasts at ono time. He acted with Kathlyn
Williams, and they had two very narrow escapes
from death, but he brought Miss Williams
and himself quite safely through very many
adventurous stunts.

Asked if he would like to go
hack to this type of film, Tom
Santsehi replied : " Tho fact is, 1
have not the courage to do that.
I have not been with animals for
four years. One must woii

with them day after day, bo very alert and
quick-muscled. If I would return now, they'll
probably make short work of me."

Films in Which You May Have
Seen Him.

HE appeared in Goldwyn pictures with
Geraldino Farrar, two of which were
" Shadows " and " Tho Stronger Vow " ;
and ho was tho featured player in the GoUUvvn
version of Rex Reach's " Tho North Wind's
Malice." Other photo-plays in which he has
appeared are " Hugon the Might v," a Universal
film, and 'The Garden of Allah," "The Still
Alarm," "The City of Purple Dreams," "Tho
Crisis," "Little Orphant Annie," "Hugon the
Mighty,' and "Her Kingdom of Dreams."

'lom's part in the latter film called for
great versatility. First he is bearded, dirty
and unkempt, and later he is well groomed and
immaculate.

Tom Signs Up With Pathe.

SANTSCHI is to appear for I'atho in a series
of fifteen two-reclors of tho Western type,
the lirst of which is to bo " Beyond thr>
Trail." This is a fine film, and gives Tom play
for strength of character as well as muscle. It
is a story of strong filial affection, tendernes-),
and dawning love.

There is no film player more capable of acting
Western rolos than Tom Santsehi. Ho has been
featured in- so many characterizations that
require great strength and ability, and he set
a standard for strong-man roles in Rex Reach's"
'' The Spoilers," in which he had a great fight
with William Famum.

His Forceful Eyes.

HE is a fine specimen of manhood, standing
two inches over six feet. He has thick,
wavy hair and blue eyes that lookout fear
lessly upon the world, and civc one tho
impression of quiet force — tho eyes of
a man who has trained many wild
and ferocious beasts.
. He was born in Lucerne, Switzer-
land, but while still very young went
to America.

Tom Santsehi is fond oi motoring, and likes to do bis own repairs.

Tom Santsehi and Geraldine Farrar in a thrilling scene in " Shadows."

18 Picture S.'iou; October I0(!i, 1920.

"The Man Who Forgot.'

{Continued from
page 16.)

the circumstances of his hurried departure. In
t liis letter he asked Mona to wait for him till he
returned from Salonica.

Jim Hallibar never delivered that note. But he
did show Mona a snapshot Seth had sent him. It
had been taken by an officer on the transport and
showed Seth standing by the side of Viola Selwyn.

Mona Jennifer was very proud. She could not
understand why. if Seth Maiden loved her as he
professed, he had left her without savins; good-bye
or even leaving a note. And when she saw the snap-
shot the fears that had been gnawing at her heart
ever since the day Seth went to tea with the admiral's
niece took definite shape. Seth had deserted her
lor Sriola Selwyn.

Then her pride turned the love she had had for
Seth Maiden into hate. She did not wish to see hitu
or hear of him acrain.

Had she but known it. while she was casting Seth
Maiden out of her heart, he was lying delirious in
l.ospital in Salonica. so ill that for weeks he hovered
on the brink of death.

But knowing nothing of these things Mona felt
she had been cruelly treated, and while she was in
that state of mind she found some consolation for
her wounded pride in the protestations of love that
Jim Hallibar was for ever pouring into her ears. In
the end she married htm.

As she stood at the altar of the little church Mona
realised that there was no love in her heart for Jim
like the love she would have given to Seth, but the
thought only made her more determined to do her
duty by the man she had married.

In the mpntlis that followed, Mona, though not
really happy, found a quiet content, and it was quite
possible that content might have gradually merged
i:ito happiness as the years went by. But one dav
Admiral Balston returned to the village, and he
stopped her.

" Well, and how arc you. and how is my young
friend, Seth Maiden ? " said Admiral Ilalston.

" I should have thought that you would have
known how Mr. Maiden is. as by this time he must
be married to your niece," replied Mona eoldlv.

"Married to my niece ? " exclaimed the admiral.
" Goodness gracious, girl ! What do you mean ?

My niece is married to an officer in the Navy. She
was engaged to him when we were down here before."

Mona felt an icy dread stealing round her heart.
Something told her that Jim had deceived her, and
when the admiral had explained the snapshot and
other things and assured her that Viola Selwyn had
merely taken a friendly interest in Seth, she knew
that her happiness had been filched from her by
a lie. - ~

In a furious passion she went to her cottage and
taxed Jim with his deceit. He could not deny it,
but he pleaded that it was because of the great love
he had for her that he had deceived her.

" I felt that I couldn't live without you, Mona,"
he said simply.

Well, you'll have to live without me from now
and to the end of time," replied Mona, her voice
rising and her cheeks aflame. " Do you think I
could live with a man who had won me by a lie ?
A man that betrayed his chum ? "

The contempt in her voice aroused all that was
evil in Jim Hallibar's nature. With a smothered
cry he sprang towards her, but Mona whipped up
a knife that was lying on the table.

" If you attempt to touch me. Jim Hallibar. I
will kill you I " she said quietly. " I'm going
straight back to my father, and I never wish to see
you again ! " — .

Without a word Hallibar slonk out of the cottage.
A few days later he joined a mine-sweeper and on
her first voyage she was sunk by a German " I' "
boat, and the Admiralty report was -that all hands
were either killed or drowned.

Seth Comes Back.

MOXA lived on with her father and once more
took out his fishing boat to wrest a living
from the sea. But once again the calm
current of her life was disturbed. This time, by the
arrival of Seth Maiden, back from Salonica and
invalided out of the service. Mona felt that in
justice to Seth she must tell him how she had come
to marry Jim Hallibar. and when Seth had heard
all, and told Mona of Jim's treachery in not deliver-
ing his letter, he took the girl in his arms.

" The best tiling we can do, Mona, is to forget
the past. Jim is dead and we ought to try to for-
give him. Let us take up our life again just as it
was before there came this terrible misunderstanding."

And Slona. crying softly on his shoulder, knew
that happiness had come at last. In the two yeara
that followed Mona lived in a world of sunshine
that was never darkened by a cloud. She and S
were married and the proud parents of a boy that
was the living image of Seth.

Then once again Fate intervened in Mona'.- Bfe.
Jim Hallibar returned to Torsea. He came In com-
pany with Salty Felton, who had found him in i
South American port. Jim had been picked up by a 1 1
Argentine tramp steamer, floating on a grating
which he had grabbed as the mine-sweeper sai.W
under his feet. He had received a blow on tti ■
head that had caused him to lose his memory. a:*d
be had been called by those who rescued him, " 'Hit-
Man who Forgot."

When Salty Felton found liim. Jim did not r -jl-
nise him. He listened while the Torsea fish '!
told him who he really was, and that he had a- wife
in England, and after much persuading, he deciil • I
to come home. Salty Felton's action in brii;j
back the man everybody thought dead was n K
actuated by any high motive, but by a desire to
revenge himself on Seth Maiden because he had
married Mona and was happy. It was Salty who
arranged that Jim should meet Mona and Set!.
the two" were coming up from the beach.

" Here's your wife. Jim. and the man she married,
flunking you were dead," he said brutally.^ But if
he expected any sensational climax to his meau
revenge he was disappointed.

Jim stared at Mona and Seth and then muttered
irritably :

" I don't know these people. I have never met
them before. I don't know why you have dragged
inc back here. I was very happy in South America "
Then, without even another glance at Mona and
Seth, Jim walked away.

Salty was furious at the failure of the scheme he
had planned so carefully. He ran after HalliUir
and in his endeavour to make Jim remember the past
he gave his own miserable scheme of revenge away
and showed that it was. not for Jim's happiness, but
for his own hatred of Seth Maiden, that he bail
brought Hallibar from South America. Gradually tlx
truth fixed itself in Jim's brain. He turned on
Salty with fury in his eyes.

Continued on page 23)

"BRENDA OF THE BARGE."

A FINE HARMA

PHOTO-PLAY.

" Brenda of the Barge" — a new Harma film — is a human story with a happy blending ot pathos and humour. The cast is a fine one, including JAMES
KNIGHT, as Jim ; H ARIORIE VILLI S. as Brenda ; TOM COVENTRY, at the Bargee ; and BLANCHE STANLEY, as his wife. In the top picture we set
little DELPHINE LEWIS who is only five years old, and takes the part of the dying child o! the bargee and his wife. The left-hand picture shows Brenda bathing
Jim's black eye ; while in the other picture, we see the bargee discovering the child which his wife has kidnapped to replace the little one she has lost.

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Read This First.

A WEE little mite gave a rendering of " Sunshine
in Paradise Alley " one afternoon at a sea-id'-
hotel. The singing was out of tune, hut.
nevertheless, sweet. This was the debut in public oi
Norma Talmadge.

Years after, when she and her two sisters, Natalie
and Constance, were schoolchildren, the three girls
gave a performance for their mother, Peg, and some
friends, of a small play. Norma's acting was so
remarkable that her audience predicted a brilliant
future for her. And they were not far wrong !

When Norma was nearly fifteen she applied at the
Vitagraph Studio, .and was taken on as an " extra."

After a year at the studio, in which time she got
very disheartened. Norma was given a chance, slit*
gave a wonderful rehearsal of her part before her
sister Constance. \

Norma Makes Good.

AFTER the bedroom rehearsal with Con-
stance as her only audience, Norma slept
well. The next morning she went to the
studio as usual. She was feeling nervous and
yet hopeful.

Young as she was, she had the true artist's
secret confidence in her own powers. Deep
down in her heart, she felt that, given her
chance, she could make good.

And now her chanco had come. She had a
real part.

- But there was always the risk of failure.
Something might go wrong. A thousand and one
things might happen to prevent her from making
just the impression she wanted to make, and
which she knew she could make if all went well.

So she was anxious and conscious of a certain
mental strain as she entered the studio.

She was quite at home there now, and had
many friends, but she was still looked upon as
a beginner, just one in the crowd.

To-day she conversed little with her associates,
hut stood apart, pre-occupied with her own
thoughts.

*>n» had to wait some time, for the big scene of
the play was being taken first, and iii this she
did not appear. The scene gave some trouble.
For some reason or other the lady who took the
loading part was in a bad humour and nothing
went right/ The sceno was taken over and
over again, and the producer was almost driven
to despair.

" Now, Miss Talmadge ! "

Norma was startled by the sudden mention
of her name. Mr. Wilmore's voice was unusually
sharp. - .

The morning had been a trying one to him,
and he was irritated.

The studio hands were already busy arranging
the stage properties for- the next episode.

" You understand what you've got to do, my
child ? " said Mr. Wilmore, a little wearily.
" You sit on that seat. You have just dis-
covered that your lover is unworthy'. You are
despondent and miserable. Please don't smile.
Do try to look miserable. Then your lover
appears. Now this is important. When you
first seo him, you are not to be joyful and you
are not to be angry. That comes later. At
first you are simply agitated. That gives him
time to make love. You don't resist him — not
at first — you just endure it. Then ho produces
the ring. That's your cue. .You fire up and
turn him down. Tho part is a bit mature for
you, but do your best."

Owing probably to the fact that lie was tired
there was a dreary note of hopelessness in his
voice. Cloarly he did not expect much of the
little actress. If she did just well enough to
pass, and did not make the scene absolutely
ridiculous, it was as much as he hoped for.

Norma flushed. She was stung by the note
in the speaker's voice, and if she needed any
farther stimulant to do her best she had it now.

With an effort of will she forgot everything
but the part she was to play. The glare of the
calcium light, tho commonplace surroundings of
the studio simply ceased to be as far as she was
concerned.

She became the young girl in the play thinking
of the man who had been weighed in the balance
and found wanting. The man who had won her
love and then proved unworthy.

She sat on the garden seat, painted to look like
marble, and waited. With mournful, yearning
eyes she gazed at the camera. Utter misery
was depicted on her beautiful expressive face.

Then suddenly her expression changed, and
she gave a quick turn of her head. The un-
worthy lover was approaching.

Then ho appeared. He was a clever actor,
though his name is now forgotten, and he played
his part well. He had to represent a man with
a double, personality. In the grim fight for
dollars he was hard, cruel, and relentless ; but
when he turned his back on his office ho was
gay, irresponsible, and light-hearted, the ideal
hero of a simple country maiden.

It was in this second personality that lie now-
appeared.

When she saw him Norma's first impulse was
to welcome him, as of old. For a moment she
w;;s carried away by the charm of the man who
had won her heart, and she almost forgot that
other man she had seen in the office.

All this the little actress contrived to convey.

Then the man made love, and the girl seemed
more and more unable to resist the fascination
of his personality.

At last the moment came when the man took
her hand and produced the ring.

For a moment Norma stared at it. Then she
looked away and gazed.at the camera. But it
was not the camera she saw. The thing she saw
was a face distorted by greed and cruelty.

With a cry she snatched her hand away, and
staggered back, and into her wonderful face came
that look of horror, loathing, and disgust.

It was so marvellously realistic and betrayed so
truthfully the deepest emotions of the woman's
soul, that someone looking on gave a gasping cry
of astonishment.

Then came Mr. Wilmore's voice no lonser
languid and weary, but tense with excitement.

" Good ! Hold it ! "

Then tho whirr of the camera ceased and
Norma knew that the sceno was over.

She awoke as from a dream, and looked about
her. wondering if she had failed.

The first thing she realised was that someone
was shaking her hand with extraordinary
heartiness.

It was Mr. Wilmore himself.

"My dear child, that was great. If you go
on like this, you will be the Sarah Bernhardt of
the screen ! " he exclaimed enthusiastically.

Norma's eyes shone with happiness.

" You — you think I shall be able to take
real parts ? " she asked eagerly.

The producer laughed.

" 1 think, my child, in a very little while you
will be choosing your own parts, and if you
don't make one of the biggest successes in the
business, then all my experience goes for
nothing."

From that day Norma Talmadge never looked
back.

The Commencement of Constance's
Career.

" QAY, Norma, may I come to the studio
lJ with you to-day ? "

Little Constance asked the question
with assumed carelessness, but her bright eyes
betrayed her eagerness as she looked up at hor
brilliant sister.

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ALMADGE SISTERS

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The three Talmadge girls were always devoted
to one another from their earliest days, and the
bond of affection has never been loosened, but
in CVnst.in'-e's attitude towards Norma there is
n!-o something cf reverence, something of hero-
worship.

This remains to the present day. If you go
to interview Constanco she talks about Norma.

"Isn't sho wonderful ? " she will exclaim
with her pretty face aglow.

In early days, of course, this attitude was
even more marked. Norma had achieved, if not
fame, an assured position and a handsome salary
before Constance left school.

She was talked about ; she received score3 of
letters from unknown admirers, and even
exhibitors in far-away England began to bo
clamorous for more of her pictures.

This seemed very wonderful indeed to Connie,
and filled her w ith awe.

Thus, in spite of her self-confidence and that
delightful cheekiness which has always been her
chief characteristic, she was secretly a litt'.o
nervous when she asked permission to accom-
pany her sister to the studio.

Norma, however, replied with a hearty assent.

" Sure ! Why not '? "

" You don't think they'll mind me butting

" Not a bit. They let me do as I like now."

This was true. By this time Norma was a
very privileged young person indeed at the
Vitagraph studios.

So the two sisters went together, and Con-
stance was so delighted by the experience that
she made a habit of going whenever she had
tho chance.

Perhaps even then deep down in her heart
she nourished the ambition of following in
Norma's footsteps, but she certainly never
dreamed of the dramatic leap to fame she was
destined to make.*

One day she came home very excited and
dropped five dollars into her mother's lap.

Mis. Talmadge opened her eyes.

" Who gave you this, child ? she demanded.

Constance drew herself up to her full height,
and replied with a careless flourish of her hand :

" I earned it ! "

She had, in fact, been given a small " bit " in
one of the productions, and the five dollars was
her reward.

From this time Constance attended the studio
regularly, and she was frequently given occa-
sional " bits " to play.

The opportunities for distinguishing herself
were not great, and the remuneration was de-
cidedly small, but Constance was of a sanguine
disposition, and now that she had made'a start
she was quite sure that nothing would be able
to prevent her from mounting the other rungs
of the ladder leading to fame and fortune.

And indeed a certain measure of success came
to her quickly. Before long she was taken on
as a member of the regular Vitagraph Stock
Company.

She was only given very minor parts, how-
ever, and at times she wondered a little
unxiouslji if the day would ever come when she
would be given a chance in something big.

Meanwhile Norma was becoming a star. In
those days, before the war, the Vitagraph was
one of the best sellers abroad. It was said at
the time that the European sales paid all tho
studio expenses and other incidentals, so that
the American output was clear profit. For this
reason the Vitagraph people were more inter-
ested in European opinion than was the case with
many of their rivals.

- One day as Norma was leaving the studio sho
was stopped by the business manager.

Excuse me, Miss Talmadge,'' he asked,
" but you have a pretty big mail, haven't you ?"
The young actress nodded, smiling.
" Yes, I can't find time to answer halt my let-
ters, and it seems such a shame when people are
so kind as to write to me. And they say such
nice things."

' How many- letters have you had this week ? "
( Continued on page 20- )

Picture S October 30'/-, 1920.

SISTERS THREE."

(Continued from
page 19.)

" One hundred and forty -two."
" From strangers '! "
" Yes."

" Any from abrottd ? "

" More than half of them are British."

"That's interesting. We ore getting known.
Miss Talmadge. There's no doubt the Britishers
like the Vitagraph stories."

" I think they like me a little," said Norma,
smiling.

To-day Norma Talmadge receives an average
of 2,000 letters a week from her unknown
admirers in all parts of the world.

A large proportion of these are from young
women who have been fascinated by her per-
sonality, and by her skill in portraying the
emotional soul of youth upon the screen.

She confesses they are a great joy to her and
an incentive to do her best.

" I get real happiness and inspiration from the
letters which girls write to me," she said recently.
For the actress on the speaking stage there are
curtain -calls and sustained applause to encourage
her and let her know when her work is at its best,
but in the studio there is no applause. These
letters from unknown admirers take the place
of that."

It was shortly after this that an event hap-
pened that caused something like a sensation
in the film world of America. Incidentally it
was destined to influence very powerfully the
lives of the Talmadges.

A firm called the Triangle, with the now
famous D. \Y. Griffith at its head, was organised.
A number of prominent stars were engaged at
balaries which were then considered enormous.

Mr. Griffith was one of the first to realise; that
personality counts for even more on the screen
than it does on the stage, and he was ready to
pay a high figure to any artist possessed of that
priceless gift.

One day he strolled into a picture house in
New York and saw Norma Talmadge on the
screen. The title of the picture was " A Neigh-
bouring Princess," and judged by modern stan-
dards, it was not a particularly brilliant pro-
duction. Mr. Griffith, however, sat it through,
and he was interested.

That night ho wrote a letter, and the next
day that letter fell like a bombshell in the homo
of the Talmadges.

Norma read it and then stared at it incredu-
lously for a good half minute. Finally she
took it to her mother.

" Peg,"she said, " whatdo you think ofthat ". "

Mrs. Talmadge took the "letter and read it
through twice. It was a brief note, containing
an oflor to Miss Talmadge to join the Triangle
and naming a salary which was so big that it
didn't look real.

Mrs. Talmadge put down the letter, rose to
her feet, and proceeded to hurry from the room.

" Where arc you going, I'cg 1 " asked Norma
in surprise.

" Why, to see about packing, of course, my
dear. It's a long journey, and we shall want
a lot of things."

"Then you think it's all right ? "

" Of course it's all right."

" You don't think there's any mistake in
the figures ? It's — it's an awful lot of money.''

Mrs. Talmadge surveyed her handsome daugh-
ter with a look of motherly pride.

" Not more than you aro worth, my darling.
This simply means that they have found you out.
I 'oor Constance will have to give up her work.
Hut never mind. Maybe she will get another
start out West — you never know."

" If I accept the offer it will only bo on con-
dition that they consent to give Connie a trial
too," said Norma loyally.

Natalie.

THE one member of the Talmadge family who
left Brooklyn with regret was Natalie.
Natalie is often spoken of as the youngest
of the Talmadge girls, but this is not so. As a
matter of fact she is a year older than Constance.

This seems an appropriate place to give the
actual birthdays of the three sisters. Norma
was born at Niagara Falls on May 2, 1897, and
is therefore now in her 21th year.

Natalie was born at Brooklyn on April 29,
1899, and is thus in her 22nd year.

Constance was also born at Brooklyn, and
her birthday is also in April — the 19th, and the
year 1900. She is thus in her 21st year.

IN THE DRESSING-ROOM.

Falling Hair — Its. Cause — Some Reliable Shampoos — Trie Import-
ance of Careful Drying — The Picture Girl s Ribbon Hat.

IT is quite a usual thing nowadays to hear
cries from girls about the ill-health of their
hair. They complain that it is falling out, or
that it has become dull and lifeless, and very
hard to do up nicely for all the parties and
dances that crop up at this time of the year.
True it is that the sunlight and various elements
with which the hair has come in contact during
the holiday months have not improved its
texture ; therefore, a little careful attention will
be essential just now.

Look to Your Health.

THE variation in the quality, quantity, and
texture of the hair is largely due to the
health of the individual ; persons of
nervous temperaments usually have less
abundant and less glossy hair than those of more
robust and sanguine dispositions. Mental
trouble, late hours with an insufficient amount
of sleep will frequently cause the hair to fall
out and become thin. Of course, it is absurd to
tell a girl not to worry, for she may have cause
to do so, but late hours can be avoided, and
every girl should see to it that she gets her full
proportion of sleep.

Tips From a Star.

JUANITA HANSEN, who, as you know, has a
wealth of wonderful blonde hair, says that
regular care must be given to the hair if it
is to be kept nice. Here are her suggestions
for keeping the hair strong and healthy :

" It is a great mistake to wash the hair too
frequently — such a practice tends to make it

A uesful and becoming little " pull-on " hat of ribbon
for wear on winter days. No. 28,331.

Natalie was always very proud of her pretty
sisters, but for a long time she felt no desire to
follow in their footsteps. At her mother's sug-
gestion she went to the Vitagraph Studios, and
on rare occasions she was given bits " to play,
but the work did not appeal to her.

" It is no use, Peg," she said one day, " it is
not my line. Two movie actresses in the family-
are enough. I'm not pretty and I'm not clever

Nonsense ! " interposed Mrs, Talmadge.
V You are the cleverest of all iny daughters. You
could learn anything you wanted to learn. But
if the screen does not appeal to you. then you
had better leave it alone. The great thing is to
be interested in your work whatever it is. But
you must take up something and make yourself
self-supporting. You won't be happy otherwise."

Natalie acted promptly on her mother's sug-
gestion, and began to study book-keeping, short-
hand, and typewriting.

She soon became proficient, and she was doing
quite well in a modest way when the family had
to leave Brooklyn and journey West.

She wondered what the new life held for her,
and she was not very hopeful. She was a
thoughtful, serious-minded little girl, fond of

both dry and brittle. However, it should not be
forgotten that cleanliness goes far towards keep-
ing the hair, and scalp in a healthy state.

" There are many preparations on the marked
for shampooing the hair, yetl believe in making
my own shampoos, for I do then know the com -
position of the mixture. Here is a recipe for
oily hair : Dissolve some soft soap in hot water,
and to this add a pinch of borax and a few
drops of pure ammonia. In this wash the hair.

" An egg shampoo is excellent for dry hair,
although it is a little expensive in these days of
high prices. Still, it preserves the hair, so it b
worth the outlay.

" Beat a fresh egg to a froth, adding an eqmT
amount of lukewarm water. Rub this mixture
into the scalp just as you would an ordinary
shampoo, and afterwards carefully rinse with
tepid water. This shampoo will cleanse the
scalp thoroughly, nourish the roots of the hair,
and will not clog the pores.

Take Care With the Drying.

AFTER washing, the hair should always be
thoroughly and carefully dried with -i
rough towel, but not with a fluffy one,
as the fluff is apt to come off and get entangled
with the hair.

"Of course, my hair is short, so I do not
have much difficulty with the drying, but 1 have
heard of girls putting their hair in the oven ti«
dry, when it is very long. If they only knew the
harm of such a practice. — as well as the danger — -
1 am sure they would not do such a silly thins.
The dry heat of the oven is not good for tho
hair, and in time takes the colour out of it.
The very best method of drying is to use iam
— or rather, to get someone else to fan your
hair for you. The current of air will dry it
quickly. However, if you are compelled to
dry it yourself, and wish to dry it quickly, do
this with warm towels. These can be heated
continuously in the oven, and the head dried
With a circular, rough movement."

The Picture Girl's Winter Hat.

THE big hat is truly becoming, but it h
rather "in the way " when worn with
the big coat, the collar of which muffle*
well up into the neck for the sake of warmth.
Tho small " pull-on " shape, therefore, i*.
without doubt, the most comfortable, and
most charming of all of this type is the hat of
ribbon. The Picture Girl possesses a delight-
ful little affair composed entirely of powder -
blue ribbon, that turns up from the face.
A jaunty little bow of the ribbon placed at
one side of the hat adds a touch of piquancy
to the chic little affair.

You can obtain patterns of this hnt f
one shilling (P.O. to be made payable to tW
Picture Show) from Picture Show, Pattern
Dept., 291a, Oxford Streety London, W. 1.

A Dresser.

study, and perhaps she was just a little afraid of
life. She loved her brilliant sisters, and gloried
in their successes, but she knew that Nature
had not provided her with the gifts which \\.\A
been so bountifully bestowed upon them, and
her own very real r.nd solid gifts she was too
modest to value at their true worth.

As it turned out the journey proved a great
event, a great step forward, in the lives of all
the girls.

To Norma it meant the beginning of fame.
She was already a film favourite with an assured
position, but now she became a star.

To Constance it meant that she was to get her
first great chance and the opportunity of making
•» great personal hit in one of the finest pro-
ductions that have ever been filmed.

And to Natalie it meant a fuller and moro
interesting life with plenty of work, which it ml
a delight to do and which brought her a crowd
of new and congenial friends.

With this chapter we come to the end of I ho
first phase of tho wonderful careers of the Til
madges.

Next week we enter upon tho second phase,
which is one long record of dazzling success.
(Continued next u-tek.)

PiiMwre Sliou; October 10th, 1920.

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REAL LIFE STORIES.

ACCORDING to an announcement made a short
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parture from the ordinary type of motion pictures.
Instead of depending on fiction, the company had
selected the principal characters from people in every
station of life, and such incidents from their past as
would prove interesting were to be woven into plays
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country, though possibly they may be brought over
here in time, if sueh indeed is the intention.

I am reminded of them, however, by some of the
letters I have received. These have come from readers
who neither desire the visual information nor wish to
get on the films themselves. But all of them feel
that their past lives are unpublished documents which
would bear interesting telling on the silver sheet.
Unfortunately, this is a matter on which I am not able
to advise, since the criticism and placing of scenarios
with likely producers is not within my province. But
the curious point concerning these proposals is that
the readers who think their lives would make good
filming, have all had some great sorro -, and. there-
fore, sufficiently pathetic to be of into ejt to others.
This, however, is where one is apt to err. Most people
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would be of peculiar interest to their fe'.low-leiags.
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there happens to be sufficient reason to justify pub-'
licity. But sorrow as a subject for entertain me it
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hopes to exploit, a new avenue in film plays, the real
life stories to be selected for the screen will only be
those teeming with excitement and actual adventures.
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too early to predict. As a new feature, they will
probably arouse a certain amount of interest even if
they do not, as is more than likely, attain to the same
height of popularity as plays based largely on imagina-
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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M. A. (Perak). — Thanks for your appreciation.
I am ulnd to hear this paper sells the best in your
distant part of the world. The Triangle film you
saw was filmed in America, and the Arctic scenes
in it were all cleverly " made to order." Sec the
results of our voting competition in the issue fur
July 3rd, frenn which you will learn whom our readers
consider to be the most beautiful actress, etc.

Viviknnf. JANE (East Twickenham). — f*o you have
given yourself a new nom-de-plume this time. No,
1 don't mind, of course. You like change, and the
kind I prefer ^s all silver. Eugene O'Brien is not-
over 6ft. I believe It is his real name. Just three
of- his films are : " The Perfect Lover," " Sealed
Hearts," and " The Broken Melody." No, Marguerite
Clayton and Ethel Clayton are not related. Clinrles
Ray is twenty-nine. Of the others you mention,
Pcggv Carlisle i« British, but Anita Stewart, Milton
Mills,' Mildred Davis, and Betty Blythe arc all
Americans.

Peqoy asp Nora (Huddersficld). — What Is the
likeness, Nora, you have noticed Iwtween Eddy
Polo and William Russell ? You will have to tell
me. Lucille Love is Grace Cunard, and Pearl Grant
is Eddy Polo's wife. No. it was not Elsie Ferguson,
but Betty Blythe in " Tangled Lives " with Hmtv
Morry.

'* WlVXIE " (Newcastle). — So you just adore Thcda
Bant, the "dark-eyed beauty." ' Thirty Is her age.
and Cincinnati Is the place where she w»« bom.
Dark blue eyes and dark brown hair forms her
colouring. Ashton Dearholt was the artiste in
" Pitfalls of a Big City," and William Scott In " The
Forbidden Room."

" Dinky " (Hemsworth). — Yes, yon a«e right
about Victoria Forde being Tom Mix's wife, but at
the moment I have not heard whether they have any
kiddies. So your brother-in-law is an exact double of
James Knight. Particulars concerning the latter are*
llurnia player, bora in Canterbury. His height is
5 ft. 101 In., with brown hair and dark grey eyes.

He has played in "The Happy Warfior," " Katun <
Gentleman," " Big Money," and several others.

" Tony " (Sheffield!. — You are not quite as tall ai
your two favourites, George Walsh and Charles Hut-
chison, whose heights are 5 ft. 11 in., and 5 ft. 10 lit,
respectively. But there is hope for you yet.

" Seasides " (Whitley Bay) and " ANX10
Helex " (Camden Town). — Just a little reque.r.
about Ann Little. Weli. here you are. Age, twenty -
six. and birthiHace Sisson, California. Some of fchc
films in which she has appeared are: "Less Tfia 1
Kin," "The Squaw Man." " Alia- Mike Moran." »u t
"The R aring Road." She gives her height as f> r.

0 in., and her colouring as dark hair and brown eye
"TIGER Lit.Y" (Rhondda Valley).— 1 have w«t

heard of the artiste you mention, hut I imagine y u
must be thinkiitg of Ashton Dearholt. His wife is
Helcne Ross.;n. and he was born in Milwaukee. V 3-
consin. His eyes and hair are both dark.

" BrTTERfrp" (Plymouth). — You are in love wttH
Crcighton Hale's " nice crooked smile " ? I like i'.
too. John Bowers was the hero in " Hulda from
Holland." and Marshall Nellan played a similar role
in " Rags." Sheldon Lewis was Perrv Bennet and
the Clutching Hand in "The Exploits of Elaine."
Wu Fang in " The Lightning Raider " was Warmv
Olaud.

No. 63011, L.Cpl. A. R. JEXKIXS, A Coy. 4'h
K.R.R.C, Balgraith Spinney, Quetta, India, apnea- a
for any reading matter which could be sent hiin s»
that he and his comrades might pass away the dull
hours they experience.

B. R. (Wyuberg). — 1 should not advise you t >
waste your money on cinema school fees, -1 hough

1 know nothing about the Caje Town concern you
mention. Pauline Frederick has been referred t -
as - the Mrs. Patrick Campbell of the screen,"
which does njt mean, of course, that she L-> t:ie
latter person.

"Little Grfe" (LytheringtonV — So you ha\e,
turned up again with another list ! Ruth Cliff ur I
is twenty, and Betty Compsnn is a year younger.
Warren Kerrigan is 6 ft. 1 in. Ruth Roland has
reddish-brown hair and dark blue eyes.

Vampire " (Sheffield). — I am glad to have your
appreciition, and do not mind your litt'.e bit 1 t
criticism at all. Von say yon cannot understand
why this p«rivr givts so much attention to Brttl-h
lilnis whieh ' are not worth seeing." Would 1!
surprise you to know that readers are constant ly
asking for more and mere new- ol our productions '
so you see how opinions differ. The photo; I
want of Theda Barn apjieared in the i sue tor
December I3tli. and you might write to the published
for it. She was born in Cineinnatti, Ohio. hi
'" Salome." the others w'-o riipported her were :
G. Raymond Nye (King Herod). Albert Kcscoe (John
the Baptist), and Herliert Have* (Sejnnus).

" Well Wisher " (Hull).— Do yon mean " A
Square Deal" with Margarita Ki-her as the star?
If so, the hero wis J.u-k Mower. In " Tl >• Eyes <>t
Julia Deep" the hero was Alan Forrest.

(More answers next week. J

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the Editor, The Pictire show, Room 86, Th,-
Fleetway House. Farringdon Street, London.
E.C.4., and It will he forwarded by the next mail.
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letters cannot be specially acknowledged by the
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name of your county and country, and mention the
Picti re Show to ensure the safety .of a reply. .It '
must be understood, however, that we cannot
guarantee that sueh letters will be replied tj.
Plea.-e keep the*e addresses for reference.

Madge Kennedy. Milton Sills, care of Goldaryo
Film Co.. Culver City, California, V S. A.

Mary Milks Mister. Cosstanof Iunnky, rare of
Ibalart Pictures Corpn., 46?, Fifth \ venue. New
York City. I s V.

RrTH Clifford, care of Froliman Amusement. Cor-
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(More addresses next week.)

Picture Show, October 50th, 1920.

" The Man Who Forgot." (Cotae1/r

" I seo it all now," he said. Ton didn't want
to befriend me by brinjrmB me back home to see
if the old plaoe8 would restore my memory, but
bceause you wnntcd to wreck the happiness of these
two people, who, so far as I can make out, did no
harm. 1 have seen some mean skunks in my time,
but never one so mean as you ! Look after yourself
for I mean to (jive you the hiding of yonr life."

Jim Hung himself on Salty and shook him as o
terrier would a rat. Fear gave Salty strength, and
he managed to break away. He knew he was no
match for Halllbar and as the latter turned he picked
tip a piece of rock and struck him a cruel blow on
the head. Then, leaving the man, he had so foully
used as an instrument to wreck his revenge lying
senseless on the shore, he ran back to the village.

Jim was found bv some fishermen, and in regard
for their old friendship Seth had him taken to the
cottage they used to share and sent for the best
doctor in the district to attend to him. .

And wliilc Jim Hallibar was fighting for his life,
Mona and Jim were trying to find a way out of the
terrible situation that faced them. Mona had gono
straight away to her father with her baby, and Jietli
was lodging in the village.

Seth had consulted a lawyer, but had been told
that Mona's marriage with Jim must stand. Tho
last hope taken away from him, Seth Maiden decided
he must go away. He made over to Mona all he
had, and decided to go to Jim Hallibar to say good-
bye.

Hallibar had recovered from his injury, and with
his recovery had been restored his Memory.

" It's a terrible business, this, Seth," said Jim, as
his old chum sat down in the cottage where, in tho
long ago they had lived together in friendship. " I've
made a mess of things all my life. I robbed you of
Mona with a lie, and I'm sorrier than vou can ever
know that I did It. I don't expect either of you
to forgive mc that, but I think you both know that
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If I'd have known what I was doing, I would havu
killed myself first ; but my memory had gone and
that skunk Salty used me for his own ends."

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" It's no use worrying about anything now Jim,"
said Seth. " I forgive you everything, and I know
this last business was not your fault. But It was
only right that you should have come back, Jim.
Mona Is your wife and nothing can alter that. I'm
going off by the first train in the morning and I
thought I'd say good-byo first. Here's my hand
and all I want to ask you is to be good to Mona."

Jim Hallibar held out his hand, but he did not
appear to be listening to Seth's request.

" I want you to promise me something, Seth.
Promise me on your solemn oath that, you will si-e
Mona before you go. I can't tell you why, but
promise."

Seth hesitated and then said :

" I promise, Jim."

The ne\t morning. Seth, carrying his bag, knocked
af old Jennifer's cottage. Mona answered the door.

" I didn't want to distress you any more, Mona,
but f saw Jim yesterday and he made mc swear I
would see you before I left."

As he spoke Tarpaulin Jack came running up with
a letter which he handed to Mona.

" It's from Jim Hallibar," he said.

Mona opened the letter. It was very brief and
stated that he had wished Seth to see her and her
baby before he left. There was another letter in-
side addressed to Seth, which Mona handed to him.
Seth turned nale as he read it and then passed it to
Mona. The letter read :

" Dear Seth, — This will bring your wife and little,
*nn back to you. There's no law to prevent you
and Mona being man and wife now. I fixed that
at sunrise. I've always been to blame, mate. — •
Your old chum, '" Jim."

And when the evening tide came in, bringing with
it the body of Jim Hallibar. there was a peaceful
smile on the dead man's face which told that in
giving his life to bring happiness to those he had
wronged, Jim Hallibar had felt no regret.

(Adapted from incidents in the Harma
photo-play, by permission.)

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No. 43. — BERNARD DUDLEY.

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This Week's Pleasant Surprise.

YOU will remember I told you that there
was another pleasant surprise for those
who look forward to our Art Plates.
As soon as you turn to our centre supplement
you will know it is here. There are more and
more of these beautiful pictures in which the
hero and heroine are posed by your favourites
in filmland. Will you write and tell me i£
you like them ?

Just a Reminder.

LOVERS of our Art Plates should also
remember that the fourth coloured
picture is presented with No, 4 of the
" Girls' Cinema," out to-morrow. This is
entitled " Say Yes," and is a beautiful pro-
posal scene, the hero and heroine being the
well-loved film stare, Charles Ray and Scena
Owen. These pictures have received such
universal praise, I couldn't resist a last
reminder to my readers of the Picture
Show to be sure and secure copies for
themselves.

The Wonder Man in the "Picture
Show."

AS I expect you know, Georges Carpentier,
the man who is world famous as a
boxer and a perfect type of manhood,
has appeared in a film. This film has the
fitting title, " The Wonder Man." The
story of the film has been secured for the
Picture Show, and will run for two weeks,
commencing next Monday.

Every man and woman in the country
will be interested in this story, which has
a real hero playing the part of a reel hero.
It is a story of love, intrigue, and sport.
Don't miss it, and tell your friends. They
will thank you.

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Is This For You ?

JAMES KNIGHT tells me some kind reader
of the PrcTuitE Show has sent him a
tobacco-pouch, but he has no means of
ascertaining who the sender is, as all the
signature on the little note was " A female
reader of the Picture Show," and there was
no address.

Mr. Knight begs me to convey his hearty
thank3 and appreciation of the gift. So,
little lady, who considers James Knight -the
" best actor in the whole world," Mr. Knight
thanks you

Pli6b,qTapKg ard Paragraph.^ oP Pictures. Play^ and Player/*

Music versus the Screen.

I SAW Ivor Novollo just before he left London
for Paris, to see himself as others will see
him in Louis Mercanton's film version of
" Miarka."

Ho told me that he does not intend to desert
his musical work for the all-conquering films.
As you know, his latest song, " Thoughts of
You," is being sung with tremendous success
by Miss Jose Collins, in " A Southern Maid,"
at Daly's theatre, London. Mr. Novello says
that it bids fair to rival his now historic " Keep
the Homo Fires Burning."

Gareth Hughes as " Tommy."

I HEAR that Gareth Hughes has been chosen
- to enact the role of Tommy in the picture
version of J. M. Barrie's famous novel,
" Sentimental Tommy." Gareth has risen to
the forefront of film players in the brief space
of twelve months, after making a great im-
pression on the speaking stage. As you know,
he is only 21 years old, was born in Wales, went
to America as a member of the Welsh Players,
and has stayed there ever since.

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Raymond Wants to Know.

DO you know that Raymond Hatton, the
character actor now appearing in Gold-
wyn pictures, says that he receives more
letters from admirers in England, than from
America? Yet Mr. Hatton is an American,
and has never been in England. How do
you account for this ?

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Now the Spiritualistic Screen Play.

YOU know there is a wave of public interest
in spiritualism now sweeping through the
country. Three of the most successful
plays in London have this theme, "The Un-
known," " The Crossing," and " Mar}' Rose,'r

so the coming screen version of Robert W.
Chambers's novel, " Athalie," is expocted to
create a sensation, when it is shown over here.

The story centres round a girl, possessed of
psychic powers. From her sheltered country
home, she becomes a popular and well-known
spiritualist. We shall see Sylvia Breamor,
Conrad Nigel, and other popular players in
this film.

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She Means to be a Pilot.

POPPY WYNDHAM tells mo she is busily
trying to learn the strictly technical side
of flying, for she is determined to pilot a
machine on her own account before many more
weeks have elapsed.

She admits that the work is both hard and
tiring, but she feels that knowledge as to how
to pilot a machine is bound to come in useful
to her some time in her film work, so she is
working with this end in view.

No. not Harold Lloyd, but BRYANT WASHBURN and
MARGUERITE L00MIS in the coming film " The Sins of
St. Antony." Glasses do make a difference, don't they ?

Dangerous Dance Frocks.

1GHTED gas fires and Hawaiian dance
frocks do not take kindly to each other
when the gas stove is alight, for, as you
know, these hula-hula frocks are made of grasB.
This was the cause of what was nearly a tragedy
at the Metro studios the other day, when one
of the dancers who was working with Madame
Doraldina, walking past the lighted stove,
swished her skirt in the fire, and in an instant
was in flames. One of the men immediately
grabbed a coat, and threw it around her,
smothering the flames before much damage
was done.

Needless to say the other Hawaiian danoers,
cold as they were in their tropical frocks,
kept away from the stove, thinking it better
to be cool than burnt.

An Ungentlemanly Ape.

^ T HEAR that Dorothy Phillips is nursing a
I bruised head, as the result of being hit
by a cocoanut, hurled from the dizzy
height of a giant tree, by a large ape. Four
members of the ape family were used to give
realism to her coming picture, " Men, Women,
and Marriage," and it was when Miss Phi'lips
was enacting a most dramatic scene with
James Kirkwood that this ungentlemanly ape
hurled the nut. Dorothy says that a large
picture hat she was wearing probably saved
lier from more serious injury than she re-
ceived.

Their Best Parts on the Screen.

IT is not always an asset for a screen player
to be " born to the part." For instance.
Charles Ray, 'you must know, was born
and reared in a town, yet it is in the " simple
country boys " parts that he excels.

While Ward Crane, whom most of you
have seen as a dapper city youth, wa3 reared
on a farm. The best plays of these respective
stars are said to be the ones shortly to be
released. Charles Ray in " Peaceful Valley,"
and tWard Crane, with Anita Stewart, in
" Harriet and the Piper."

The Pope on the Film.

MOVING pictures of Pope Benedict the
XV. have been'secured, after many
months of effort to remove the bar
against camera-men at the Vatican. These
remarkable pictures constitute the first
opportunity ever given to view the Supreme
Prelate in action, as well as to witness tha
most sacred ceremonies of the Vatican.

Troubles Never Come Singly.

PEARL WHITE has both of her cars in
the repair shop. And the athletic
actress put them there" herself. She
drove one over an embankment to avoid
hitting two children. That she did not
mind. But when she backed into a ten-ton

PICTURE SHOW" CHAT. (c™t"1.?

LIONEL SCOTT, who has appeared with great
success in " The Flag Lieutenant," " David and
Jonathan," " The Golden Nib," " The Definite
Object," " The Tavern Knight," and is now
playing a part in the coming Ideal film version
of " The Manchester Man."

truck and smashed her speedster, Miss White
was sore. Mow she has to travel to and from
her work in a hired taxi.

The Egg -Timer.

MANY famous screen stars can tell of hard
.times they endured before they won a
place in the film world. Bill Hart tells
of the time when he lived with a friend in a
lodging that was meant only for one, by - the
simple ruse of going to see his pal late at night,
and forgetting to go home.

Another story is told by Tom Mooro. He
and two friends waged a weekly battle against
the expense of living, and a losing battle it was !
They had , pawned everything marketable
except a gold watch. One of the trio would not
let this go, because ;ho liked his eggs boiled two
and a half minutes exactly in tho morning. A
second more — or less, spoiled tho entire day
for him.

His two friends argued that he must let it go,
and eventually pointed out that if ho did not,
there would he no eg^'s to time. Then came
the great idea. Tom suddenly solved the
problem.

" We'll pawn the watch," he said. " But
before we pawn it, wo'll time my pulso. I know
it's regular : then we can time your eggs by my
pulso ! "

The idea was adopted ; and Tom relates with
a laugh that it was quite succ -ssful. Better
times have come since yien, however. Thank

goodness. .».-.'

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Bessie Love, Authoress.

OF special interest to Bessie Love's admirers
is the announcement that she is to publish
a series of tales written by herself, known
as " Bessie Love's tjood Night Stories." Theso
will describe tho lives of numerous denizons of
tho fores", real and fantastic. Notably among
them are tho Little Blind Squirrel, tho Jazzo
Bird, tho Whoposopolis, the Grasshopper, and
tho Whipplelita. Tho stories wero written
essentially for children, but will appeal to grown-
ups as well.

Havo you seen Bessie yet in " Over the
Garden Wall ? " It is her latest, and to my
mind one of her happiest plays

Charlie forsakes the Country.

CHARLES RAY is to depart from his usual
country boy role, in his coming film,
" Nineteen Phyllis." He is to appear as a
dapper nineteen-year -old city boy. It is said
he has never had a part in which Charles revelled
more.

A Surprise for Him.

A GOOD story is being told of a picture palace
manager who is very fond of Bryant
Washburn.

He had a large picture of Bryant in his lobby,
and always booked Bryant Washburn's pictures.
This went on for so long that Bryant Washburn
became to him the most familiar figure in the
world.

When he heard that Mr. Washburn was in
London, he wrote him, and one night Bryant
Washburn called at the picture palace.

" Do you know," said the exhibitor, " I wa9
absolutely offended with him for a moment,
because he hadn't recognised me, ' said the ex-
hibitor. " It was a full minute before I realised
that he had never seen me before in his life."
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Bessie's Real Name.

DID you know that Bessie Love's real name
is Juanita Horton, though this fact is
almost forgotten, even by those who gave
it to her. If you were to meet Mrs. Horton, she
would probably tell you she was Bessie Love's
mother. Bessie Love is as much Bessie Love at
homo as she is on the screen, only there they
pronounce it Bessie, Love. She has no brothers
or sisters, and is not married, but lives with her
father and mother in a pretty little bungalow
near the studio.

About Letters.

WHAT do you think of this ? I hear that
Mary -Piekford's out-going post is so
heavy that the Los Angeles post-office
has requested her to use cancelled stamps, thus
saving tho government the expense of hiring
several extra clerks just to cancel the Pickford
postage. By the way Nazimova delights in
her letters, and tells with great glee of one she
has just received from a Japanese, who ex-
presses his admiration of her by calling her
" A Leaping Lark."

Picture Shoic, yovember bth, 1920.

FROM " OVER THERE."

Notes and News from Los Angeles.

SESSUE HAYAKAWA recently went into t>
stationer's shop up Hollywood way to
purchase a new fountain-pen. The clerk
submitted a number of specimens for his
approval, and suggested he should try them by
writing his name. In an absent-minded sort
of way, Sessuo scribbled on the blank sheet
before him the Latin maxim " Tempus Fugit."
Probably the1 clerk was a disappointed auto-
graph fiend, for his face fell considerably as
he said :

" Oh, is your name Fugit ? Now, do you
know, you look so much like Mr. H.-.yakawa."

Dark or Fair.

THE latest of screen modes appears to be
ringing a change on the stars' crowning
glories. Colleen Moore, filmdom's dark-
haired Glad Girl, is, for the time being, a
dazzling blonde. No, it's not peroxide, but a
wig, her latest part mysteriously demanding
this metamorphosis. Anita Stewart in '•' The
Yellow Typhoon " has also been proving that
she can be just as beautiful whether dark or
fair. Little Mary Miles Minter, who is at
present playing the parts of mother and
daughter in " Sweet Lavender,'' on the other
hand, has been camouflaging her sun -kissed
tresses with a black wig for certain scenes. A
little boy who saw her at the Studio the other
day, in fact, refused to believe that be was
talking to the Mary ho had adored on the
screen, until M.iss Minter let him have a peep at
tho yellow locks beneath tho sedate black wig.

Why ?

JACK WARREN KERRIGAN reads most of
the scenarios that are sent him himself.
Most of them are very bad, but Jack says
that about the worst he ever received was a
script that came to him by roaistered mail
entitled " Why Do I Live t A letter accom-
panied the scenario urging that it should be
given immediate attention. And after wading
through somo dozen pages of futile and un-
tutored efforts, Jack sat down and wrote the
author the following comment : '* In reply to
your inquiry per script. Because you mailed
it instead of delivering it in person.'^

MacDonald Not a Convincing Clothes
Presser

WALLACE MacDONALD has proved con-
clusively that he could never make a
living as a pressor of clothes. In his new
role he was called upon to spend an afternoon
pressing trousers. He pressed some of his own.
The Hollywood tailor has been busily engaged
for several days in an effort to undo what he
did to his hapless trousers.

A Last Word.

TO all my readers who like a really fine serial,
and thore are a few, I expect, who do not,
1 havo a special piece of advice to give this
week, and it is this — make
no mistake about securing a
copy of ! Answers " at once
and reading tho first long,
wonderful instalment of
the great romance, entitled
PAID IN FULL."

Tho author of "Answers"
new autumn sorial is the
famous John ' Goodwin,
whoso hovels, " BLACK-
MAIL" and "WITHOUT
MERCY-" first appeared
in " Answers," and havo
since sold by hundreds of
thousands in book form all
over the world.

In his new sorial story —
you have all seen tho strik-
ing posters drawing atten-
tion to it — the Editor of
" Answers " has secured
ono of the finest story
dramas over penned. If you
aro not alroady reading
" PAID IN FULL" you
will thank me for my
timely hint.

Fay Ft liner.

B. V. D.

THE secret has. leaked out that tho initials of
Bobe Daniels are B. V. D., said initials
having been discovered on a suit-case,
and the > ownership sleuthed to Miss Bobe.
Nothing very sonsational in this, you will be
thinking, only it happens that in tho States
B.V.D. is tho trado mark of a universally
popular brand of gents underwear, which is, in
fact, known by no other name. Bill Desmond
used to sport his initials on the door of his
motor-car with a harp of Erin entwined, till
the urchins mado him abandon the effect on
account of tho harp looking suspiciously like
a V.

1'lsie Codd.

AGNLY AYKES and MAIUOKIE DAW have just returned irom a lhght.
WESLEY BARRY put on a stray cap and said be bad been flyin?. too.
You can see what the girls say to this

Picture Show, Korcmber ttfi, 1920. 5

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA FOR THE " PICTURE SHOW."

PAULINE FREDERICK and JULIAN ELTINGE are both very fond of horse riding. They were photographed SESSUE HAYAKAWA and bis wife, TSURI AOKI,
before they went for a canter — PAULINE FREDERICK looking more beautiful than ever in her riding-habit.. enjoy a quiet read at home.

A tense moment in one of the thrilling scenes of MAURICE TOURNEUR discussing scenes for " The Last of the Mohicans " with British soldiers in the
" Smashing Barriers " — a Vitagraph serial. The stars old fort at his studio in Universal City. This famous story, by James Fenimore Cooper, which is a great
are EDITH JOHNSON and WILLIAM DUNCAN. favourite with all boys, should make a fine film.

A scene from " Madame Peacock " showing Madame NAZIMOVA. With the hauteur and dignity That charming little star, VIOLA DANA, in a scene trom ous
of a queen, she confers her favours. of her films — " Cinderella's Twin."

6 ' Picture Show, Xovcinbtr bth, 1020.

Our Splendid Serial Telltng of a Man's Ftght Agatnst Fate and of a ^fVonderful Love.

The Case for the Prosecution.

THK case against Galloway assumed a black
aspect from the start.

The newspapers seized upon it with
avidity, and the public followed their lead full
cry.

The romantic circumstances of the wreck of
the Sweet Alice, and the amazing exchange of
identity, gave the case outstanding features.

Needless to say, capable journalistic experts
soon ferreted out all these interesting details,
and served them up sensationally for the benefit
of the reading public.

As circumstantial evidence they told heavily
against the prisoner, John Galloway, alias Dyson
Mallet, as the newspapers described him.

The man in the street immediately judged
him guilty. Even the circumstances of his
arrest— hat less, dressed in flannels, stained with
the mud of the ditches, and torn with brambles ;
hiding amongst the hay in an .old barn — dis-
counted any possibility of innocence.

The coroner's inquiry was held in the village
inn, and the result was that Dyson Mallet was
found to have been wilfully murdered by one
John Galloway.

The police offered no evidence, and at their
request Galloway was not permitted to give any.

Other evidence showed conclusively that Gal-
loway when rescued from the sea had papers on
him which seemed to show that he was Dyson
Mallet. He had been brought to Mallet's house,
and although, according to the evidence of Mr.
Railton, he had for some time insisted that his
name was John Galloway and not Dyson Mallet,
ho had eventually accepted the latter identity,
presuming apparently that Mallet was dead.

It was further shown that on the day of the
murder the dead man was at the local inn, the
very inn at which the inquiry was held. Ho
seemed to have money in his pocket, although
in the matter of clothes and general appearance,
ho was in a deplorable condition.

Ho- bought refreshments for tho thirsty
natives, and in exchange questioned them per-
sistently and successfully about the man who
bore his name and was living in his house.

It was noticed that what he learned in this
connection seemed to amuse him highly.

Further important evidenco was given by
Mrs. Weston, housekeeper at Mallet's house.

It appeared that this good lady, a nervous
soul, soon after retiring had heard voices in one
of tho lower rooms.

Mr. Mallet, or tho man whom she then im-
agined to be Mr. Mallet, had sent her to bed not
long before, and so far as she knew ho was
alone in tho house with the exception of herself
and tho three maids.

Consequently when sho heard talking below she
was alarmed, and perhaps a little inquisitive.

Sho got up and came downstairs in her
dressing-gown and bare feet.

She found that the talking was in the smoking-
room, and not wishing to reveal herself in her
dishabille, she had taken the liberty of peeping
through the keyhole in order to assure herself
that her master's house was in order.

Sho had seen in tho room her master, now
known as Mr. John Galloway, and " as perfoct
a gentleman as she had ever met." That sho
would say if all the coroners in the world tried
to prevent her, and say it she did.

Her master was in his white flannels. But
in tho room with him was another whom sho
had sineo identified as tho dead man, tho sub-
ject of this inquiry.

They were talking, that was all she could say.
She did not hear what they wero saying, and
sho did not try to hear. Sho hoped Hhe knew
her position and her duty as a housokeoper.

But sho had noticed that tho dead man was
drinking something from a glass, and, so far as
Hhe could seo, the two men wero talking in a
friendly way.

CHARACTERS IN THE STORY
JOHN GALLOWAY is saved from the wreck of the
Sweet Alice. When hi recovers he is mistaken
for his friend, Dyson Mallet. He protests, but
no one believes him. Mallet was engaged to
ATHALIE RAILTON, with whom GaUoway falls
in love.

IRMA GALE was also on board the Sweet Alice,
and John thinks she, too, was drowned. But
one day she comes to see him.

ALICE MERCER writes a letter addressed to Mallet,
hinting at a past love affair. She goes to his
house and finds Galloway impersonating his
friend. While they are talking, somebody
shoots' at them from the garden.

DYSON MALLET, whom Galloway supposes to he
drowned ; but after spending a delightful day
with Athalie on her birthday, John returns
home and finds Mallet fast asleep in an arm-
chair in the smoking-room.

Dyson is quite friendly, but Galloway leaves
the house. He sleeps in a barn, and is awakened
by a policeman telling him he is wanted for the
murder of Dyson Mallet.

Having seen that she went back to bed, a little
exercised in mind because the stranger ap-
peared nothing but a tramp, but satisfied that
there was nothing for her to worry about.

She had not seen either of the men leavo
the house.

The evidence .collected by the newspaper
experts, however, showed that the two men
had left the house by way of the French win-
dows, and had walked across the lawn ap-
parently together. Their tracks across the grass,
walking side by side, were quite plain, though
they were lost when they came to the field
path which led eventually to the high road.

The police-court proceedings opened the next
day at the sleepy town of Marlingham. Only
formal evidence of arrest was given, and tho
police immediately applied for an adjournment
of a fortnight.

The prisoner, who accepted tho name of John
Galloway, and admitted that he was not entitled
to that of Dyson Mallet, pleaded not guilty.

The newspapers continued, to turn up new
evidence about the case but warily now, know-
ing the pitfalls which lurk in the words sub
judicc.

John Galloway had, much to his surprise,
found himself represented in the police court
by a solicitor, an able Marlingjiam man named
Hansom.

He had not instructed a solicitor himself, hav-
ing no money to pay him with. Conscious of
complete innocence, he had been quite content
to allow the case to go to trial, understanding
that the Crown woidd appoint somebody to
dofend him in tho last ordeal. As to tho final
result of this he was not in the least troubled.
His mind was sufficiently full of other matters.

The day after his arrest he had, by permission
of tho prison authorities, sent a letter to Athalio
Hailtou — duly censored, of course.

The letter contained only these few sentences.
In the circumstances Galloway did not think
he was entitled to say more.

" I am guilty of everything except tho murder
of Dyson Mallot. I did deliberately conceal my
own identity and live under another man's namo
and in his houso. I allowed you to give trie your
friendship under a name to which 1 had no title.

But Mallot was my partner, and the idea
that I should murder him is inconceivable He
camo to the house that night. Our interview
was perfectly friendly. His attitude towards my
deception was one of surprising generosity. Wo
did not quarrel or have a single word of bitter-
ness. When I left tho house I left him alive,
and as well as when I first saw him.

" I am not at all anxious about tho outcome
of this case, and am content to leave it to tho
ordinary course of justice From you, however,
1 expect belief, although perhaps I have not much
right to expect it.

"John Gaixoway."

The letter was duly forwarded, and the prison
authorities handed a copy of it over to the

police.

No reply came from Athalie, nor did Gallo-
way expect one. He might, however, have
been more comforted if he could have known
the circumstances.

At the news of John's arrest, and the charge
against him, Athalie had collapsed, and for two
or three days her condition was alarming.

Mr. Railton had opened the letter from GaUo-
way, and, exercising his parental discretion,
had locked it up in his own desk and said not a
word about it to anybody.

The day after the opening of the polio >
case, Ransom the solicitor, called upon the
prisoner.

He was a middle-aged man who had seen a
good deal of criminal practice. He looked at liis
client shrewdly.

" Who instructed you to defend- me ? " was
Galloway's first question.

" I am instructed by a friend of yours,"
replied the solicitor. " But, of course, if you
have another solicitor whom you would prefer,
I am quite ready to step out."

" I have nobody," returned John, " and I
have no money to pay for my defence. I am
quite satisfied for you to' conduct my case, but I
should like to know who my friend is."

" That I am unable to tell you," returned
Mr. Ransom. " I have given a pledgo that I
will not reveal — er — his name."
. Galloway shrugged his shoulders.

" Very well," he said resignedly. " I am
very much obliged to him, and 1 am glad there
is somebody who believes in my innocence."

At the word innocence, Mr. Hansom pursed
his mouth slightly.

" With your permission," he said slowly and
judiciallv, " I propose to admit that there was a
fight." *

" A what ? " said John startled.
A fight. Tho man was not shot or stabbed,
but he is knocked about, and there is a nasty
blow on the head which tho medical evidence says
might have been caused by a blunt instrument."

He smiled drily.

" Seem to have heard that expression before
somohow. Very well, that injury might easily
have been caused by a fist. It will troublo tho
experts to prove that it was not. There you are,
there is my case. There was a light, thoro was
plenty for you two to right about. Manslaughter
— not murder. The difference is tho difference
between the scaff ild, and say twelve months'
imprisonment, perhaps not so much. You
complicated matters by running away. If you
had stayed and seen tho affair out, the police
would not have dared to bring a murder charge."

Galloway stood up abruptly.

" I am sorry, Mr. Ransom, I -shall not 1» able
to ask yovi to conduct my case."

" Why not T "

" Because that is not my case."

" What lino do you suggest then ? "

" I am completely innocent," returnod Gal-
loway. " I did not in any way cause the death
of my old partner, Dyson Mallot ; nor did 1
contribute to it. When. I left him ho was aJivo
and well, and I did not run away from him at all.
If you represent me that must bo your lino, and
I wish you to put me into the witness-box
straight away."

" Hum ! " muttered Mr. Ransom. . " Very
dangerous for you to go into tho witness-box
unless you arc innocent."

" If you say that onco more, Mr. Ransom,
we part company here, and I will get on without
a solicitor," said Galloway.

Such was tho position of affairs when, two
days before tho adjourned hearing, Billy
O'Farrcl landed at Liverpool.

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Picture Show, November bth, 1920.

THE EXPRESSIONS OF MARC MACDERMOTT.

(Special to the "Picture Show.")

MARC MacDERMOTT.

The Star WKo Longs To Return to England and Buy a Cosy House Along tke Thames.

" Ha ! Ha !

Appealing.

/ "I hate you ! "

Longing for sympathy.

WHEN Marc MacDermott decides he has worked
long enough he will return to England, find
a real cosy house and farm somewhere along
tho Thame.?, and settle down for good. Of course
we will be glad to have Mare MacDermott back
with us again, but we do hope he continues to
appear in pictures oven after he settles down."

We believe Marc MacDermott is really better
known to tho picture world of Great Britain than
he is to the American public, for the reason that
we have always claimed him as one of our own, and
wo have talked more about him and looked forward
to his appearance on the screen here.

Played With Mrs. Pat Campbell.

MARC MacDERMOTT was bom in Goulburn,
New South Wales. He began his stage
career in Sydney, Australia. He came to
London, and appeared with Mrs. Pat. Campbell
in " The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," and played the
lead with her in a tour of England of Sudermann"s
" Joy of Living."

Mr. MacDermott went to America with Mrs. Campbell,
remaining there a year. After his return to England he
toured the provinces in " Sherlock Holmes," under the
management of Charles Frohman. He returned to the
United States, and for one year played with Richard
Mansfield. After that he went into motion pictures,
boine engaged by the Edison Company. He was with
this company six years.

Around the World Making Pictures.

THIS clever actor admits that he has enjoyed
pictures. He has been sought out by many
directors, so that he has been idle very little.
He was sent around the world twice at the head of
a company to make scenes and pictures in various
countries.

" Each of those trips took nine months," he declared
to a representative of the Picture Show, who was
visiting the big William Fox studios. " That was some
years aao, and it seems strange to me to hear to-day
the excitement that is created in the papers if a company
contemplate? such a .trip. Recalling those trips is odd,
because on the second trip Charley Brabin was the pro-
ducer, and here I am to-day being directed by Charley
Brabin in a new Fox picture."

Films In Which He Has Appeared.

MR. MacDERMOTT spent two years with Vita-
graph, being starred in '" Babbette," " The
Sixteenth Wife," and " The Price of Fame."
''Mary Jones's Pa," which was called "The Beloved
Vagabond " in England. A year's illness kept him out
of pictures. Then he played in " The Thirteenth Chair,"
and was with Norma Talmadge in "The Blue Moon."
Under B." A. Rolphe, he appeared in " The Red Virgin "
and " Even as Eve." He had appeared in Fox pictures
before, and so when tho Fox Company was preparing to
make " Kathleen Mavourneen," Mr. MacDermott was
picked for the squire. He did a splendid piece of
work. His acting is always of the best, because Marc
MacDermott takes a pride in doing his best, in fact,
doing things just right is his big hobby.

Then he was engaged for the big Fox special produc-
tion, " While New York Sleeps." This is one of the most,
powerful pictures of the year, ft shows three phases of
New York's darker side. In the first Mr. MacDermott
is a tramp, in the second he is a man-about-town, and
in the third phases MacDermott gives one of the greatest
pieces of acting ever shown on the screen. He sits in a
chair by a fireside, dumb, cannot hear, cannot move his
body. But the acting with the eye? alone will cause
MacDermott to live long and distinctly in the minds of,
the people who see this remarkable picture.

When He Comes to England.

HE was at work in another big Fox picture when the
Picture Show representative called on him.
They sat on a piece of furniture that was part
of a "set," and talked about Mr. MaeDermolt's return
to England.

" Yes," he said, " I want to go back there and get a
house somewhere on the Thames and settle down. Oh,
don't laugh ! I realise that houses are as scarce as heu's
teeth just now but in five years' time England will be
back in her old stride. I feel that I would like to sit
down and rest, and to me a home along the Thames is
more restful than anything I can think of.

" I hope when I get to England I will be able to
write a story about pictures in the States for Picture
Show. In the meantime give my best wishes to all your
readers."

MARC MACDERMOTT.

If you wish to write to him, address your letter:

Care of Fox Studios,

1401, North Western Avenue,
Los Angeles,

California, U.S.A.

" I don't trust you.

" How do you do ?'

Picture Show, November bth, 1920.

" The Price gfs Honour." (ContPZueV)rom
The Coming of Billy O'Farrel.

BILLY O'FARREL was Galloway's partner
and Dyson Mallet's partner.

When the other two, tired out with
their luck or lack of it, had left the Calamity
Jano in North Rhodesia, with a small opinion
of gold mines in general, and their own in
particular, Billy O'Farrel had remained behind,
unconquered.

Ho had remained behind to toil and moil
and sweat in the tunnels of the well -named
Calamity Jane. Now he, too, had come homo
to look for his partners.

Ho had not even heard of the disaster to the
Sweet Alice. The name brought nothing to
him, because he did not know the name of the
boat in which his two friends had travelled
home.

The newspaper boy did not call every morn-
ing at the door of the Calamity Jane, and, in
fact, no newspaper of any sort happened along
in Billy's direction.

When he got down to Capetown and put
himself in touch with the events of the day, the
story of the wreck of the Sweet Alice was
ancient history and he heard nothing about it.

Consequently when he landed at Liverpool,
and learned that one of his two partners was
dead, and the other was on trial for murdering
him. it was news indeed.

Billy was a partner and a friend of the first
water.

He had many things to do, things of import-
ance. But he dropped everything. This busi-
ness of his two partners became instantly the
ehief matter for him. Before doing anything
else he must clear Galloway of this absurd
charge.

Ho thought it would be the simplest thing
in the world, being himself a simple soul.

Ho appeared suddenly before the police at
Marlingham, and was interviewed by an inspec-
tor who had the case in hand, or said he had.

" This man is innocent," said Billy briskly.
" Why, of course, he's innocent ! The thing
is absurd I tell you. John Galloway would
rescue a cockchafer out of his tea and let it go
again sooner than kill it."

*' Very interesting," said the inspector.
" But you see, Mr. O'Farrel, that is not evidence.
What do you know about the prisoner and the
dead man ? "

" Why, I know all about them," said Billy,
with vivacity. " I — I've lived with them both
in a hole in "the ground for years. For years I
tell you ! And if you want to know a man
inside and outside, you live with him in a hole
in the ground for years and years. Then you'll
know him, and you won't know him before.
Take that straight from me."

" Very interesting, Mr. O'Farrel," said the
inspector soothingly. " Where were you when
the murder was committed ? "

" In Rhodesia— no, on the high seas on my
way back from Rhodesia," said Billy.

" Ah ! Then I don't see that you can have
anything to say about the matter of any
weight at all."

" But I tell you the man is innocent." per-
sisted Billy. '' Isn't there any weight in that ? "

" Very little," returned the inspector. " Of
course, you can, if you like, give evidence with
regard to Galloway's character when he was in
Rhodesia with you, though I don't see that it
could do him much good. Nevertheless, I will
take your address, and hand it to those in charge
of the ease. The adjourned hearing is the day
after to-morrow, if you wish to be present."

Billy left the address of his hotel in London,
and extracted a private promiso from the in-
spector that he would send him a wire if there
were any interesting developments before the
adjourned hearing came on.

Billy O'Farrel, however, was not the- man to
leave the matter at this. Ho was disappointed,
because ho had imagined that after ho had made
his statement to the police, Galloway would
at once bo produced, and he would walk away
with him arm in arm.

As it wa9 things did not look vory promising.
So Billy paid a visit to Dyson Mallet's house,
where he interviewed Mrs. Weston and gavo
that lady the same assurance as he had given
to the police.

Subsequently he went post haste to London,
where he plunged in and out of the otlico doors
of leading (inns of solicitors ; and even cornered

» great criminal counsel, who listened to his
vehement arguments and protestations with
far more courtesy than Billy was, perhaps,
entitled to.

Finally, nobody held out to him the slightest
hope that he would be able to do anything to
help his much loved friend and partner in his
hour of trial. So the same evening he rushed
back to Marlingham, and nightfall found him
wandering in Brandon woods, near the spot
where Mallet's body had been found. -

And here, under a great beech tree, he found
a girl on her knees weeping.

When Billy, with his ready sympathy for
any human creature in distress, touched the
girl on the shoulder, she turned a blanched
tear-wet face up to him.

Billy was not old enough to be her father,
but he was ten years her senior and looked more.

" What is the matter, my dear ? " he asked
gently.

A flood of sobs answered him, and mingled
with them ho caught the name of Dyson Mallet.

At once Billy became on the alert. He sat
down on a bole of the tree, and waited until sho
had had her cry out. Then he spoke to her,
and there was something in his voice, some
magnetic quality of manly tenderness and
sympathy with sin and frailty, which made her
reach out to him blindly.

" What is your name ? " he asked quietly.

" Alice Mercer," replied the girl.

" I don't know who you are," continued
Billy, " but you have just spoken the name of
a friend of mine, a friend and partner of many
years — who is now dead."

" Dyson Mallet — you are his friend ? " said the
girl breathlessly, her wide eyes searching his face.

" My name is O'Farrel, Billy O'Farrel. I
was Dyson's partner. I have just come from
Rhodesia, where wo worked a mine claim
together called the Calamity Jane."

" Yes, yes," whispered the girl, " I have

SPECIAL NOTICJb !

NEXT MONDAY will
begin the thrilling story of

"THE WONDER MAN,"

in which

GEORGES CARPENTIER,

the world-famous boxer, takes the star
part in the screen play soon to be released
by the Ideal Film Company.
" THE WONDER MAN " is a tale of
LOVE, SPORT, and INTRIGUE.
Don't miss the Story in next Monday's
"PICTURE SHOW."
It will make you appcgi/iate the photo-
play more when you sec it on the scree:i.

heard of it and of you. He often spoke of you
in his letters. Oh, and now he is dead, and will
never speak to mo again."

" You — you were in love with him ? " said
Billy, in a very low voice.

The girl held her head up, turned her face to
him proudly.

" Yes," she said. " He promised to marry
me when ho came home. 1 believe he would
have done."

" I believe so, too," said Billy, and hoped
the untruth might bo forgiven him. "Now
listen," he continued. " Dyson was my
partner. There were three of us in the Calamity
Jane. The other is the man who stands charged
with Dyson's murder. His name is Galloway,
and although I cannot prove it, I know as well
as I know anything, that Galloway did not
murder or kill his old partner."

" I know he did not, said the girl quickly.

Billy concealed a start.

" Do yon know who killed him t "

" Yes. No — oh, no ! How can I say such
a thing ! I know nothing, like you ; but —
but "

" There is something in your mind that is
troubling you ? "

" Yes, that is it," she answered slowly.

" Will you tell me about it t said Billy.
" You are not speaking to the police. You can
look on this place as a confessional if that helps
you any. But think. Remember thore is a
man on'trial for his life, and I know, and I think
you know also, that he is innocent. I may bo
able to help you. Two heads are better than

one. I am the partner of both men, and foi
that reason I am your friend."

" I know nothing," said the girl, lowering her
head. " But — but I believe Jack Belcher
did it. I don't think it was murder. Jack
Belcher would not do that if he was in his
right mind. But I believe there may have
been a fight."

" Who is Jack Belcher ? "

" He lives in the village," continued the girl.
" He is in love with me ; has been for years.
Oh, 1 have been very wicked, and it is my
fault. When it seemed that Dyson was never
coming back, and — and sometimes he did not
write to me for six months at a time, I let Jack
think I was in love with him a bit.

" Then when Dyson was rescued from the sea
and brought back here ill, I told Jack the truth
and sent him away. I told him I had never
loved him, but had always loved Mr. Mallet.

" He was almost mad with jealousy, and
swore he would kill Dyson. Of course, that was
not Dyson who was brought to the house, but
I thought it was at first. I went there one
night to see him, and while we were standing
in the room, a shot was fired. It smashed a
mirror over the mantelpiece."

" Who fired the shot ? " asked Billy sternly.

" Jack Belcher. He confessed it afterwards
to me. He was poaching and had the gun in
his hand when he saw me with Mr. Galloway,
whom he thought was Dyson. He said he did
not fire the shot to hit us, but to frighten me.
But I was not sure.

" I believe after that he lay in wait for him,
still believing him to he Mallet, although I
told him he was not. That is all 1 know, but
I believe he met this man and learned that he
was Mallet, and — there was a fight, perhaps."

Billy O'Farrel found Jack Belcher in his
cottage.

Although the hour was nearing midnight,
the man was sitting up in the little room which
opened on to the village street. A tiny lamp
was burning, and through the window, before
entering, O'Farrel saw the man sitting at the
table with his elbows on it and his face buried
in his hands.

When Billy O'Farrel entered softly and
closed the door behind him, the man started
up with a face like chalk.
• Then he shook his big shoulders and folded
his arms across his chest with a rough dignity.

" You have come for me ? " he said.

O'Farrel nodded.

" Right," he said ; and it seemed that the
long breath ho drew was one of relief. " I am

ready."

" One minute," said Billy. " You are
making a mistake. You think I am a policeman
or a detective. I am nothing of the sort." «

" Who are you, then ? "

" I am Dyson Mallet's partner and John
Galloway's partner. You admit that I have
a right to interest myself in this matter ? "

The man nodded grimly.

" You know that John Galloway did not kill
his old partner ? " said Billy.

" I know it," said Belcher. " I killed him.
I'm glad you've come. Mind you, I would
never have let an innocent man go to his trial,
but I was trying to hang it out until after the
next proceedings at the police-court to see how
things shaped. But I don't think I could havo
held out much longer.

" You're his partner, so I'll tell you. Then
we'll go to tho police together. They can't
hang me, and I don't mind much if they do.

We quarrelled about a girl. I was hanging
about the house and I met this man coming
out and followed him to Brandon Woods. He
admitted he was Dyson Mallot.and whon wespoko
of the girl ho laughed at me and taunted me.

" We fought out there in the woods like two
dogs. It was a fair fight, with only our baro
fists for weapons, and he stood up to me well
enough.

"There must havo been something tho matter
with him. I knocked him down, only once,
and — it was all up with him. He died in n»y
arms. I have hit many a man harder without
any harm coming of it.

Then I got frightened and ran away.
That's where I made my mistake. Now I am
ready to go to Marlingham with you."

An hour later the two men walked into tho
police-station at Marlingham, and Jack Belcher
gave himself up.

( The conclusion of this splendid story next
Monday.)

Picture Show, Xovemlcr &ih, 1920.

MARGARITA FISHER

Trie Petite Star WUk Glorious

Co|>t>er Coloured Hair.

f ARGARITA FISHER commenced her career at
the ape of eight in a play called " The Celebrated
Case." She made instantaneous success, and
afterwards her father included her in his travelling
stock company. At the age of twelve she was quite a
well-known little actress.

She remained on the stage some time after her father's
death, and then entered pictures with the Selig Company.

Her Screen Successes.

SOME of her screen successes are.: "The Little Girl
Who Wouldn't Crow Up," " The Butterfly QU,"
" Jilted Janet," " The Mantle of Charity," " The
Devil's Assistant," and " Money Isn't Everything."

Her Beautiful Hair.

MARGARITA is petite, being only five feel in hei;
One of her chief charms is her lovely
hair, which is very thick and wavy,
and of a glorious copper tone.

She is one of the best-dressed stars on the
screen, and for each new production she
always obtains an entirely new wardrobe;
so. a< you can imagine, she has a most
beautiful and costly collection of
gowns. By the way, Miss Fisher designs
all her own frocks, and I am sure you
will agree that if she were not a
cinema star she could easily earn
her living as S dress designer.

Likes Motoring. But

ARGARITA is a home-loving girl, and
spends every moment there that can be
spared from the studio.
She lives in a delightful bungalow with her mother
and sister.

She is very fond of music and reading, and likes motor-
ing, although she has the moral courage to confess that
she doesn't like to drive herself. She's'afraid.

Margarita is here seen wearing a beautiful
model of a for coat over an evening frock
that she designed herself.

Photographed with her motor and her beautiful collie dog.

ricturt S/io

NEWS, NOTES, AND OPINIONS BY FRED K. ADAMS.

"My Most Difficult Scenes."

" HfHlS incident occurred in the early
days o£ film production.

*' We had hired a yacht at
Southend, and it was moored at the end
of the long pier. We got to work and took
several scenes successfully with the aid of
some smoke rockets. Then we found our
supply of ' smoke ' had run out. There
was no time to obtain further supplies. 1 n
(ho next scene I wanted to show the skipper
of the vessel shouting orders through a
megaphone, in a dense cloud of smoke and
flamss from blazing timber. This I con-
tiived, more or less effectively, by placing
some yards of film in a bucket, attaching
it to a wire, and dancing the flam< •; up into
the scene in front of the camera, and at
the same time, having discovered some
brown paper, I waved the smouldering
paper out of range of the camera. All
went well until some burning film got loose
and began playing round the feet of the
unfortunate actor who was taking the
part of the ' skipper.' Before long he
began to feel a little warmer than was
comfortable about the feet, and, although
he was still in ignorance as to the real
situation, he began jerking his feet in the
most absurd manner, and- we had to
finish taking the scene with the ' skipper '
dancing about, to the vast amusement of
the thousands of spectators on the pier-
head. Fortunately no one was hurt, and
the scene turned out a success, but this
was in the early days, and I am afraid
this sort of thing would not pass muster

DOW."

Wilfred Xoy.

I'hoto : Hooter Art Studios.
REX INGRAHAM, one of the forces at
.work in the Metro Studios.

* Films to Win Health.

CAN the motion picture break up the
rule of sickness and insanity in
the world ? Mr. Clermont, president
of Clermont Photo-plays, believes that,
by proper presentation of the subject
through the modium of films, the next
generation would be practically free of
disease and insanity, and so efficient
that poverty would be a thing of tho past.

It is a big claim, but Mr. Clermont
holds that ignorance aJone is the cause

of 90 per cent, of the physical and mental
disorders of the race, and he declares
that if this be true, the cure is obvious.
He would, therefore, begin with the
child in kindergarten, teaching hygiene
by means of pictures, supplemented by
actual practice in the school and the
home. As the child grew, he would take
up the more complex problems.

Things We Can Learn.

IT is a fact that not one person out of
five thousand knows sufficient about
his physical body and its functions,
and it is this terrible ignorance that
Mr. Clermont thinks could bo dispelled
by the assistance of tho motion picture.
He believes that care of the health and
development of the body should be a
matter of knowledge of "the individual,
and not of a class, and he intends to
begin work immediately and make it a
world-wide activity. It cannot be disputed
that films constitute the best medium
to do this invaluable work quickly, and,
sooner or later, there is certain to be
big developments along these lines.

Producer and Star.

THE following letter, received from
" Uliss," makes an interesting con-
tribution to the topic " Producer or
Star," which I discussed recently. My
correspondent writes :

" I most certainly think that the
producer should have his share of publicity
and the praise or blame it entails, and
also the publicity manager, taking, for
instance, a man like Mr. Alec Braid, of
whom I never knew till a few weeks ago,
when his photo was published in the
PiercitE Show — of which I have been
a reader almost siuce it came out — and
whoso work is just as important as the
photographer, art director, etc., whose
names are usually mentioned in the cast.
But 1 also think that the full cast
should be published in all photo-plays,
as, though many people go to see the
play, many also go to see a favourite
sometimes a minor actor or actress
whose name is not always mentioned
in the cast. .

" I consider Mr. Maurice Elvcy one
of the finest British producers, and a
man we ought all to be proud of. I
have never seen a bad Stoll film yet.
I think thero is a great future ahead
for first-class British films, and the
best of luck to them ; and that future
will not be harmed by the producer
being advertised. And I should like
to see, not ' Producer or Star,' but
' Producer and Star.' "

What have other readers to say t

Lessons We Learn From the
Films.

Success M only failure with a new coat
oj paint.

• • •

'filings are Jrequcntly painted red by the
green-eyed monster.

• ♦ •

One cannot succeed without merit, yet all
who have merit do not succeed.

• • •

The peacemaker is applauded by every-
body except the Jcllow who is getting the
best oj the fight.

* • •

Indigention will always harden the heart
oj the average man.

• • •

A man may find a woman's eyes
beautiful and never know the exact colour
of I he in.

AKE-LP is a very important point where the
him world is concerned.
It would be very ludicrous to see a man in
every day life running about with a huge Dowder-mitf h»t . film
actor would be quite lo* without his g He 7s just as Particular
about it as " my lady " is about her vanity wse^xcent thaf
with him it Is a matter of business only <*ccpt tnat

Although make-up is very important, the person who thinko
getting into the movies is only a matter of the proper u^eof
cosmetics, is badly mistaken. proper use ot

In fact, some of the screen's best stars would look a nart nn<l
play it nearly as convincingly without anv make-unat all h it the
camera and the powerful studio lights w6uUl do oncer thin™
their features without the balanUg apphcaUon'of cream and
the indispensable powder-puff. " OI ae*m *na

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PiCTCRI Show Aht SrPHJBKEKT, IVnnmOer bth. 1920.

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THE famous stage play, produced and
starred in by Martin Harvey, has
now been made into a film play,
with the eminent actor in the part he
created as "The Rat." It is a story of
the Civil W-vrs in England, when Charles
the First was on the throne, and the
shadow of Oliver Cromwell over the
land. A story abounding with thrill>
and heroism, with a strong vein of
romance ; written of one of the most
fascinating times in British history

MARTIN
HARVEY

die R.it.

Hen

H*' has a t>-ntU-r
spot iii his heart
for children
<• 1 1 and they
/ I! lik.-hiin
too

A friend
in need
a friend
indeed "

I'll*' thrilling due! scene
r*-miiiiscMi t of the
r.inions painting, "Fi>i
h«* had Sp'tUt n Lightly

nf .1 Woman's Nime M

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Ml to b»tny hu

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tber bib, 1920.

WOMEN AND THE FILM FIELD.

INTERVIEW WITH PEGGY HVLAND.

. .^j

There was a lull between the scenes of^T^
" Stop .Thief." so IRENE RICH stole
away to freshen her make-up. RAYMOND
HATTON, who is the bridegroom in this
Sim. is seen on the left. He does not
mean to have powder on his suit, so he
pots on a long overall before starting
operations with his enormous powder-pull.

StesSf^sc,

THERE were six of us in Peggy Hy land's
pretty drawing-room, but there
seemed — oh, far more ! Because
I think I'egpy embodies so many per-
sonalities in her own little self. And yet
all the time she ia herself, and no one else.
This is subtle, and I leave you to work
it out for yourselves.

I'eggy — I feel justified in calling her thus,
since she is " our own little Britisher " —
is very dainty and quite small (in a flippant
moment she measured herself, and found
she was barely five :e t one). Hence she
can flit about like a fairy and laugh like
a happy child with impunity. She ia both

fairy and child. And yet

Perish the illusion ! For here we have
a serious-minded woman, surveying the
world from her armchair with grave but
kindly eyes ; generous in her estimates,
tolerant in her opinions ; keen, tremen-
dously keen about life, and her work in it ;
clever, energetic, efficient.

Peggy Talks of Her Films.

IT is just at this juncture that I am in
danger of committing some banality
about beauty and brains — especially
when they are under such a very cute little
hat ; when Peggy bursts out laughing at
the serious expression my face has bor-
rowed from her own, and demands :
Won't I come over and sit beside her on
the settee ? And, oh, won't I have a
chocolate ? And I awake from my reverie
to find the guests departed and my tea
cold.

I am not, however, to be coaxed into
flippancy,

" Tell me," I say, with an utter lack of
originality, " what you have been doing
with yourself lately."

" Well," says Miss Peggy, immediately
grown serious, " I have made two Samuel -
son films since my return to England, and
in doing so have accomplished something
1 have never done before. The first film
wa3 a screen version of Countes*
Barcynska's novel, " The Honey Pot " ;
the second, " Love Maggie," by the
same authoress, was its sequel. This
is the first time I have appeared in
a film sequel whose story was also the
complement of a previous novel.
' Love Maggie,' by the way, has
been rather held up by the weather."

" Do you think we shall ever get
over the problem of our climate, Miss
Hyland ? "

" I don't see why not. Though you
may find it difficult to believe, I havo
always worked under artificial light,
even in California, where the sunlight
is so perfeet. So I do not see why the
same thing should not be a success
e. You see, it's this way : A shaft
of sunshine may light up a set in an
ideal way. but, unfortunately, it is not
stationary, and by the time the
scene has been rehearsed to the director's
satisfaction it has probably shifted to
quite another angle — and effect. Hence
orti.X'ial light is essential."

Miss Hyland Discusses the Film
Industry.

MISS HYLAND is interested, not
merely in the acting end of the film
business, but the industry as a
whole, particularly in the wide oppor-
tunities it offers to people of diverse
talents.

" The film industry has opened up a
huge field for women," slie remarked to
me, " and when an ambitious girl comes to
me for advice on ' How to Become a Film
Star,' I'm always inclined to ask her
whether she has considered the promising
prospects of the other branches of the
profession. The way of a star is hard,
' and (comparatively) few there be who
find it,' but there are ample opportunities
for bright girls to achieve both success

and money in studio positions which are
less glittering, perhaps, but quite as
essential as the star's. Take scenario
^writing and editing, for instance. Suggest
this branch of the business to a girl who
ia seeking to act when Nature designed
her to write, and you will see a little gleam
of suspicion enter her eye. ' Oh, it's such
hard work I ' she sighs. Of eourss it'a
hard work. Everything worth doing is
hard work. And yet how profitable
scenario writing is. Three women ia
particular I know have done exceedingly
well in this direction — Ouida Begere, Mary
Marillo and Eve Unsell. Miss Mariilo is
an Knglish girl, and quito young.

"Then there are the positions o', art
director and wardrobe supervisor. Theie,
surely, is work for clever women, and when
it comes to designing and dressing a set,
who should be better qualified for the job
than an artist, who is also a woman T

" Film cutting is another very important
branch of the film business in which many
a smart woman could excel if she chose,
but I can imagine quite a number of
'screen-struck' girls turning up their
noses at the mere suggestion that they
should attempt such a thing. And yet it i*
one of the most interesting, and certainly
one of the most important department*
of the industry. It takes real genius to be
a successful film-cutter, for the making
or the marring of the picture is in your
hands.

" There are few women directors at
present, and — to my knowledge — no
camera-girls ' ; but here again are
positions which women might fill credit-
ably.

PEGGY HYLAND.

Peggy's Message to " Picture Show "
Readers.

BEFORE I left her, "our little
Britisher " gave me a special message
for that large section of her publio
here 'in the Old Country :

" Tell them," she said, " how glad I
am to be among them again, and give every
one of them my love, and sincere apprecia-
tion of all the letters they send me. I
always take note of their criticisms, and
consider their correspondence a great
compliment, and in return am delighted to
answer my mail personally and send pic-
tures whenever they are requested."

May Herschel Clares.

Picture Show, November bth, 1920.

A CHARMING. COMPLETE STORY OF A YOUNG BURGLAR WITH A HEART

TBOCKED

■

WHEN Ben Trimble left the litUe village
of Tilton for New York, he had, in
addition to .his fare and a few dollars
for travelling expenses, one thousand dollars
hidden between his socks and the inner soles of
his boots.

Exactly eighty minutes after landing in the
big city he had been robbed of every cent.

The truth that New York was a hard city
to a stranger was bored into Ben's muddled
mind as he sat on the ground in a dirty alle y
in one oT the worst quarters of the East Side,
on the precise spot where he had landed when
thrown out of the tenement behind him.

As Ben felt his battered head and bruised
limbs he tried to piece together the story of his
adventures since leaving the railway terminus.

He had met two well-dressed strangers who
had claimed acquaintance on the ground that
they represented the Committee of AVelcome to
Strangers.

Ben had not read the New York papers for
nothing.

He knew that New York was full of pitfalls
for the unwary stranger from- the country, and
he told the two men that he was quite capable of
looking after himself.

This statement olfended the representatives of the
Committee of Welcome, and they insisted, as a
guarantee of their good faith, that they should be
allowed to buy Ben a lunch.

Ben saw no harm in this, and in the expressive
language of crookdora, " he fell for it."

Ben did not remember much about that lunch
•after the first drink that went with it. He had a
dim recollection of leaving the restaurant and getting
in a taxi-cab ; a more distinct memory of boasting
that nobody could rob him of his money because he
carried it in his boots ; a very vivid recollection of
finding himself on a bed in a dirty garret, with the
two representatives of the Committee of Welcome
pulling off his boots and relieving him of his money ;
an attempt to fight which ended in one of the men
hitting him over the head with a sandbag ; and a
terrible bump as he hit the hard street outside.

But right in the centre of the muddled thoughts
that raced across Ben's bewildered brain, there
stood out clear and defined with photographi •
accuracy, the face of the leader of the two men who
had robbed him. Ben decided that he would recog-
nise that face in a crowd of a thousand, and he
registered a mental vow that he would search New
York till he found the man who had given him a wel-
come to the city

Ben got on his feet with a painful effort, and began
to bang and kick at the door, but after br ising his
knuckles and hurting his toes without getting any
other answer than the echo of his knocks he decided
he would go to the police.

But he had not travelled far through the twisting
alleys when he realised that he would not be able to
find his way back. The alley he was in looked just
like the one he had left. The uselessness of trying
to get his money back struck him as he trudged along
and lie decided to try to earn a copper or so to
enable him to get a night's lodging.

For two months Ben battled with the great city
in an attem t to wrest from its billions of wealth
enough to keep him alive.

Sometimes he earned enough for a bed and a
breakfast, more often he slept amid the litter of
merchandise on the river wharfs.

One night, rendered desperate by hunger, he picked
up a heavy piece of wood and determined to hold
up the first man he came across likely to have a
full wallet. The rain was pouring down in torrents
as he hid in the shadows of a side street, the stick
clenched firmly in his hand. A young, well-dressed
man came along, his head bowed before the pelting
rain. Ben Sprang out with upraised -tick, but while
his lips were framing a command to the stranger to
hand over his money, he felt something hard pressed
against his empty stomach, and a quiet voice saying.
" Drop that stick or I'll drill a hole clean through
you."

Ben saw a blue glint ot steel jutting out ol the
stranger's hand and realised that the hard thing
sticking against his stomach was the barrel of a
revolver.

He dropped the stick and laced his would-be
victim in sullen despair.

The young man was regarding lien with qflizzical
good humour.

" Guess I'd like to hear the story behind this
clumsy hold-up, kid," he said. " This night doesn't
exactly lend itself to conversation in the open, so
y u'd better come with me to thai eating-house over
there and get a square meal. After you've eaten
you can tell me all about it.

The stranger stuck Ins revolver in his pocket,
and piloted Ben to the restaurant. He was evidently
well-known, for a waiter bustled up and deferentially
asked lor the order.

CH\RLES
RAY as EEN in the
Paramount photo-play.

The stranger chose a meal lor Ben which began
with soup and gradually increased in solidity, and
ordered something light for himself.

He watched Ben through half-closed eyes as the
latter ate his food, striving hard not to devour it.
He saw a very young man. probably twenty-one,
with a good-looking, open face and honest brown
eyes.

" Country bred," mused the stranger. " Same
old tale. Came to New York to make a fortune, and
is now trying hard to make a dollar."

Benj casting a quick glance at intervals at his
host, saw a strongly built man about thirty years of
age, with a clean-shaven face and humorous eyes.
The features showed tolerance and good humour.
The mouth, which had been set in a grim, hard line
when the stranger had shoved the revolver against
Ben's stomach, was now set in a sympathetic, smile.

The stranger did not speak till Ben had finished
eating, then, handing over his cigarette case, he
lighted up himself and in a friendly voice said, " Now,
kid, tell me all about it."

Ben told the story of his landing in New York,
how he had been robbed, and how, for the past two
months he had been living from hand to mouth.

The stranger nodded sympathetically when Ben
had finished.

" I've been through it, kid. The city is a cold-
blooded proposition. It will starve you if you will
let it. Personally, I don't. Years ago the city
treated me like it has treated you, but I guess I've
got it all back."

" How ''" said Ben eagerly.

" By taking it." replied the man calmly. I'm
a crook, and I make a good living at it. I need a
pal, why don't you bome in w:th me ?"
Ben hesitated.

" I couldn't." he said at last.
" Don't be a fool." argued the stranger. " You've
a right to live, and you say you've tried the honest
way and failed, lie a man and fight the world lor
your right to live. What good will your theories ol
honesty do you when you're wheezing out your life
in some poor house. You're not too lit now. A few
more nights like this, with the rain and hur.g r. and
you'll tind yourself in a hospital ward."

Ben shivered as he thought ol tramping the
streets again He was warm now. and the feeling
of a Square meal was good. Why go back to poverty
and starvation ?"

" You're right," he said at last. " The world
owes me a living, and I'm going to take it. I'll come
in with you. if you like."

The stranger put his hand across the table.
" My name's Nick Nelson. We're pals from now on.
Through thick and thin, to stick together to the last,
share and share alike, and may the ouc that lails
or splits end his days in torment."

" 1 agree to all that," said Ben. as he shook hands
with Nelson.

The Voice of Conscience.

7HRKK months later Kelson and Ben were
dining at Tonelli's Cafe a restaurant much
frequented by high-class crooks. The partner-
ship had been successful. Nelson was one of the most
expert sale breakers in the country, and he had
taught lien all lie knew The} had brought off
many coups and not once had the police ever got
near them. But to-night, despite their success, Ben
was moodv and low spirited He had been loyal to
Nelson, but as time went on he realised that he was
never meant to be a criminal.

The. small but insistent voice ol conscience was
lor ever urging him to give up the game.

" It's no use, Nick. I'm getting tired ot the crook
game," he said as the two gat talking over their
liqueurs and codec. I'd like to run straight."

raight:

• I've been thinking something like that
myself," said Nelson. " I'll be glad to be
through with it.. What do you say if we
make this Jcvington job to-night the last ?
We've got a tidy balance in the bank, and
we'll clear while the luck is good." \

Ben was delighted that his partner had
taken his suggestion in the way he had done,
and he felt happier than he had done for
weeks. While they were talking Ben heard a
man's voice raised in anger in the next com-
partment. His body stiffened at the voice
and tip-toeing to the door he looked in.

A man and a girl were having a row about
money, and the man was the one who had
robbed him of his thousand dollars.

Calling to Nelson Ben asked him it be
knew the man.

" Yes." replied his rartner. " That's Chick
Larrabee. He's a crook like ourselves."

" And he's the man who got my thousand
dollars," said Ben grimly " I guess I'm going
to get that back."

He Walked into the compartment and faced
Larrabee.

" You don't remember me, eh ?" he said, as the
crook looked up in surprise. " Take another look.
I in the man you and your friend robbed of a thousand
dollars, and I want that money right now."

Larrabee, who was a coward as well as a crook,
tried to rush past Ben, but met with a right-hander
that stretched him out.

As Ben was waiting for him to get up. Nelson
pulled him awav.

" You're wasting your time " he said. " Larrabee
hasn't got a dollar. Let's get to business '

He |pd Ben to the compartment they had left and
pulled out a plan of the warehouse they were going
to burgle.

While the two men were discussing the plan and
talking over the details. Chick Larrabee recovered,
and putting his" ear to the door he learned enough
about Nelson's plan to be able to locate the warehouse
they intended to rob.

Ten minutes later he had telephoned the informa-
tion to the police.

All unconscious that they had been betrayed. Ben
and Nick set out to rob Jevington's warehouse. They
had partly got through the door of the safe when
Nick's quick ear caught the sound of somebody
moving In the warehouse.

" It's the cops," he whispered. " But the light on*,
quick."

As the two burglars crouched by the side ot the
safe, they heard "th r footsteps all round them.

" The only chance is to play hide, and seek round
the packing cases." whispered ^Jick " Dash for it

now.

He made a Itolt as he spoke, hit he had not gone
many yards when there was the sharp bark of an
automatic pistol, and Nick Nelson fell against a big
packing-case.

With spartan-like resolution he stifled the cry of
pain that rose to his lips, so that the police should
not be able to place him by the sound of his voice, as
with a movement of his hands he motioned for Ben to
get away and look after himself.

Ben's answer was a shake of the head.
He signalled that he was coming back, and then ran
swiftly and silently to the other side of the warehouse.

Picking up a stool he hurled it at a window, and
while the police, attracted by the sound of breaking
glass, rushed to the spot, Ben ran back to Nick, and
hoisting Itim on his shoulder, carried him outside the
warehouse and into the car he had waiting.

Despite a hot pursuit by the police, Ben threw
them off the track and got safely to the house he anil
Nick had rented. But as he put his pal on the bed he
could see that lie had only brought him home to die.

" It's no use, Ben," said Nick. " The cops have
got me fair.

" I'll get a doctor," urged Ben. " He'll soon fix

you .

Nelson shook his head.

" 1 should be dead before you came back, and it
would only draw the cop- on to you. Listen to me,
for I haven't much time. There's a letter there. It's
from the dear old mother, I expect. She's the only
one that ever writes to me. Read it Ben."

Ben opened the letter nnd his face changed colour
at the first sentence. The letter was from a lawyer
saying Nelson's mother was dead. Ben looked at
the dying man. There was no reason to add to the
agony of his last moments by telling htm the sad news.
" Head it. Ben," repeated Nick.
And Ben Invented n letter as he read, saying that
all were well, and that his mother was nnxious to
see him ..gain.

" 1 intended to go down to the country and slop
with her for good, when we had pulled this off. '
said Nelson. " Hard luck to be killed on the last
job. Look, Ben, I want you to promise me some-
thing. I've got two kids with the old -nothcr. .My

Picture Show, November f)th, 1920.

IVO DAWSON.

(Special to the " Picturs
Show " by George Landy.)

His Six Years Alse nee from the Screen Explained.

IVO DAWSON is a prominent
name that has been absent
from tho casts of loading
Amorioan photo-play and stago
productions since the early part
of 1914. Where has ho been ?
What has bo been doing ? What
brought about his return ? This
curiosity on I ho part of tho writer
was caused by seeing Mr. Dawson
in two recent screen productions,
" The Miracle of Love," a cosmo-
politan production, and " Foot-
lights and Shadow's," with Olive
Thomas.

The answer to, the first question is :
At the front. To the second : Fighting
for England and the Allies. And to
the third : The end of the war.

His Part in the Great War. V,

BEING a patriotic Englishman, Dawson
enlisted at the very beginning of the
■ world war as a private in the infantry ;
but he did not remain a " Tommy " very long.
The same qualities that brought him to the
leading ranks on the stage and screen earned
him a commission as lieutenant in the field
artillery, and later a captaincy. It is very
interesting to not? that there was " fighting
blood " in the family, sinoo his grandfather was
a general and his father a colonel ; but Dawson
"got there" on his own merit. Rather than
accept a desk commission, he got right into
the thick of the fighting from the outset,
and he stayed there until the very end.

In Mufti Once More.

THE first thing Dawson did after getting
into mufti was to have a holiday. But
he could not long remain idle, and he was
soon at work before the . camera in " The
Keeper of the Door," produced by Sir Oswald
Stoll, the famous British theatrical producer

man
and

who
is bl

and film magnate. Upon its com-
pletion, Dawson decided to return
to America, because ho wanted
to forget tho war and because l.o
bad established a high reputation
in tho States.

The Story of His Stage and
Film Career.

THE professional history of Ivo
Dawson reads like a blue-
book of the English and
American theatres. He has ap-
peared with Mario Doro, Ethel
Barrymorc, Irene Vanbrugh, Sir
John Hare, Sir George ''Alexander,
Cyril Maude, and Dion Boucicault.
Ito first went to America with Sir
John Haro and the original London
company to appear in " The Gay Lord
Quex." Several of the dramas in
which Dawson appeared havo sinco
been done on the screen.

Dawson is at his best in so-called
" heavy " parts. Let not the reader
think that I mean the " villain " of
tho blood-and-thunder type of melo-
drama. Far from it ! What we
mean is the worldly type of man, the
has seen life in its various aspects
iso and cynical as a result.

His Future Plans.

NOW that Dawson's absence has been ex-
plained, photo-play followers will doubt-
less be interested to know what his future
plans are. He has just finished work opposite
Olive Tell in " Love Without Question," a B. A.
Rolfe production, and he intends to remain in
America and act in photo -plays as long as the
managers want him. And that should be a
very long time, as real talent such as Ivo
Dawson possesses is not met with too often on
the screen make it a drug on the market.

THE WEEK'S NEW FILMS.

A Brief Criticism of
the Latest Rel eases.

wife died two years ago. Take my share of thn
moncv and look after my mother and my two little
kiddies. If you'll promise that I'll die happy."

" I promise, Nick," said Ben, striving to keep tho
tears from his eyes. " You needn't worry about
them, old pal ! "

Five minutes later Nick Nelson was dead.

Ben Meets the Girl.

AWKKK after he had buried his pal, Tien went
down to the little country village where
Nelson's two children — a boy of six named Tom
and Alice two years older — were living on Nelson's
farm in charge of a woman who had been appointed
by the lawyer. Neither his mother nor anyone in
the village had ever suspected that Nelson was a
crook, and Ben found it very easy to give out that
his friend had met with a fatal accident in New
York, and that he had appointed him as executor.

He paid over to the lawyer Nelson's share of the
money they had had in the bank, and saw it was In-
vested in safe stock for the encfit of his two children.
Then he cast the old life from him and began to
settle down to getting an honest living as a farmer.

In addition to his desire to go straight, Ben was
influenced in his decision to remain in the village by
Vera Owen, tiic daughter of luciusOwen, a wealthy
farmer and lien's neighbour.

Vera was as pretty a girl as one could wish to see,
and as good as she was pretty. She was about Ben's
age and a strong friendship sprang up between the
two, a friendship that was encouraged by Vcra's
father who had taken a liking to Ben from the
first.

As time went on Ben's friendship for Vera ripened
into love, and though he had not declared his love
Ben felt that she returned his passion.

But he felt that he could never ask Vera to be
his wife because of his past. Night after night he
struggled with his problem, and at last he made up
his mind he would ask Vera to marry him, but he
would tell her the truth about his past life.

His opportunity came the next day when Vera
had come over to help him with the children.

He accompanied her part of the way back to her
father's farm and on the little bridge by the brook
where they had first met, he asked her to marry him.

" But before you give me your answer, Vera," he
said, " I want to tell you something. I have been a
criminal."

He noticed the shocked look on the girl's face and
saw the colour fade from her cheeks, but having
taken the plunge Ben determined to tell all. He
kept nothing back, and added nothing to his story.
When he had finished, Vera looked up at him with
trusting eyes as she whispered :

" You were sorely tempted, Ben, and I can't help
loving you. But you must promise me one thing.
You will never do it again, will you ? "

" I would starve first," replied Ben emphatically,
and he meant it.

In the days following Iris engagement to Vera,
Ben lived in a new world. He worked hard, and
was happy in his work. Each day brought him
nearer to the great day when Vera would be his
wife, and he felt that when that happened he would
have gained all that life had to offer.

And then the blow fell ; suddenly and without
warning.

There was a fair in the village, and as Ben was
strolling around he almost ran into Chick Larrabee.

The crook was talking to Vera's father and as Ben
listened, hidden from the two men, he heard Larrabee
trying to sell Mr. Owen shares in a company formed
to exploit " The Apple Worm Exterminator Patent."

Ben had not to listen long before he knew the
so-called patent was a swindle. He made his way
from his hiding-place determined to warn Mr.
Owen. The latter had not only promised to take
one thousand dollars shares, but had also told
Larrabee that he had the money and four thousand
more in his safe in his house.

Unfortunately for Ben, as he was trying to get
away, Chick finished his conversation with Mr. Owen,
and turning, saw Ben.

In a few strides he had caught up with him.

" So you heard the game, eh ? " he said. " Well,
just let me warn you to keep out of it. If you butt
in on this, I'll put the police on your track. They
still want you for that job at Jevington's. Do you
get me ? "

" I get you," replied Ben, as he walked away.

Only too well did he know that Larrabee would
not hesitate to carry out his threat. He dare not
warn Mr. Owen, but at the same time he was deter-
mined that he should not be robbed. Ben knew
that Larrabee would not now rest content with the
thousand dollars, but would rob the safe of the
whole five thousand. And as Ben thought of
Mr. Owen's safe he smiled grimly. It was an old-
fashioned one and a crack safe-breaker could have
opened a dozen like it in as many minutes.

"There's only one thing to be done," he said to
himself. " I must get to that safe first, and when
Larrabee comes he'll find it empty."

Ben carried out his plan that night. As he made
his way into Mr. Owen's drawing-room through the
French windows, and from there to the library where
the safe was, he could not help thinking what an
easy job it would have been for him and Nick Nelson
in the old days.

So easy was it that Ben became careless, and as
he bent down to get at the lock of the safe, he knocked
over a small flower-pot.

{Continued on page 22.)

"The Edge o' Beyond."

ISOBEL ELSOM and OWEN NARES
(General Film Renting Co.)

SOUTH AFRICA — that fascinating land of
veldt and kopje — is faithfully depicted in
the film version of Gertrude Page's famous
novel. Such popular stars as Isobel Elsom, Owen
Nares, Ruby Millar and Mary Rorke present
clever portrayals in this excellent drama.

" Rough-Riding Romance."

TOM MIX and JUANITA HANSEN (Fox).

OLD-WORLD romance in an up-to-date
guise, with Tom Mix as the hero. He
sets out to rescue a real princess, finds
many adventures and to spare, and is rewarded
by the hand of the fascinating lady. An enter-
taining film full of " pep " and " go."

" J'Accuse."

M. ROMNALD JOUVE and MLLE.
MARISE DAUVRAY (Path*)'.

A TRAGEDY of France at war— an artistic
production that will become a classic
of the screen. This film has already been
shown to large audiences at the Pa/vilion,
Piccadilly Circus, and the Philharmonic Hall.
Described as the most romantic tragedy of
modern times, this film will appeal to all lovers
of fine screen -craft.

"Crooked Straight."

CHARLES RAY (Paramount- Artcraft).

A CHARLES RAY drama. The popular
star as a rural lad who goes to town, falls
into evil ways, at length comes home
and endeavours to " go straight."

"Through the Wrong Door."

MADGE KENNEDY (Stoll).

MADGE KENNEDY in a comedy-drama full
of novel situations and delightful humours.
A young Westerner is robbed of his mine,
and he retaliates by annexing the] daughter of
the " sharp " business man. An entertaining
story, well acted and produced.

"Always in the Wrong."

JACK PICKFORD (Walturdaw).

AN ambitious grocer's boy, who somehow
couldn't make good, is played by Jack
Pickfordin this photo -play. However, Ins
great opportunity comes, and he makes the
most of it, with startling results.

" Victory."

ALL-STAR CAST (Paramount-Arleraft).

A SOUTH SEA ISLAND red-blooded adven-
ture, rogues, and a tremendous fight for a
girl, are the elements of the picture version
of Joseph Conrad's well-known novel. Played
by an all-star cast.

" The Grey Wolf's Ghost."

H. B. WARNER (Jury's).

ADAPTED from Bret Harte's famous story
" Maruja," and starring that great actor,
H. B. Warner. A vivid tale of the old
Sonth-Western States, of native superstition
and of a man who suddenly appeared and
demanded retribution from his treacherous
father. Well worth going a long way to see.

" The Beachcomber."

JUANITA HANSEN (Phillips).

THIS exciting tale of a girl on a South-Pacifie
island will hold the interest from beginning
to end. She waits for her Fairy Prince,
and he comes as a Secret Service agent.

" The City of Purple Dreams,"

TOM SANTSCHI and BESSIE EYTON
(Gaumont).

AN absorbing tale in which Tom Santsehrs
virile personality holds the interest from
first to last. The story of a derelict who
determined to get to the top.

" Round the World for a Wager."

GEORGE SEITZ and MARGUERITE
COURTOT (Pathe).

RAPID action and thrills upon thrills. George
Seitz and delightful Marguerite Courtot in
their best serial up to date.

The " Picture Show " Chiti".

Ffeturt 8 fax, November bth, 1920.

BEGIN THIS LIFE STORY TO-DAY.

TERS THREE

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EXCLUSIVE TO THE ,; PICTURE SHOW." \

POR the first time the romantic life story o! Norma,
Natalie, and Constance Talmadge has been
written, and will appear exclusively in the " Picture NSitsJie.
Show." The early struggles of these girls, before
they were stars, make most fascinating reading, especially as
they have recently visited Great Britain. THE EDITOR.

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Read This First.

NORMA TALMADGE was not fifteen when she
applied at the Vitagraph Studio, and was
t a i.i n on as an " extra." After a year she
was given a small part, which was her chance, and
she made a wonderful success of it.

NdTma's Successful Mixture.

THE cinema is now far and away the most
popular form of public entertainment.
Moreover, it has reached this position of
preeminence in an amazingly short space of
l imo. A dozen years- ago it was just an occasional
music-hall turn, not greatly favoured by anyone
and very trying to the eyes. It wa3 a novelty,
a little tiresome, destined soon to pass away and
be forgotten. That is what we all thought — at
least, that is what most of us thought. A few
shrewd observers doubtless even in those early
days saw both the money -making and the
artistic possibilities of the new tiling.

The rapidity with which, the cinema has
achieved its success has caused a good deal of
mental confusion in various quarters, and 19
responsible for all sorts of erroneous ideas
with regard to the business.

A superior critic recently declared in all
seriousness that a pretty face is all that is
necessary for success on the screen, and, if
you inquire, you will find that this opinion
largely prevails among patrons of the picture
house.

No greater mistake could be made. A screen
actress should be pretty, but she must be
able to act, otherwise certainly she will never
uehieve supreme success.

Most film favourites were actresses on the
speaking stage before they took to the screen — ■
most of them, but not all. Norma Talmadge,
now universally acknowledged to be a great
emotional actress, had no stage experience
whatever.

All she knows of acting she learned in the
studio. One of her producers was asked how he
explained the rapidity of her success. His
reply was brief and significant :

" Miss Talmadge has brains. She mixes
them with everything she docs."

When she joined the Triangle she was given
Rtar parts, and she at once made good. She
appeared in a film called " The Crown Prince's
Double," which was a great success.

Then just a year before the war broke out
a very fine picture was put on, called " The
Battle Cry of Peace," and Norma was chosen
to play the American beauty.

Her success in this part was sensational ;
she began to be talked about. Exhibitors and
critics were enthusiastic, ond predicted a
wonderful future for her.

According to Mrs. Talmadge, this "picture
was really the beginning of Norrna's important
work. From that date she was universally
accepted as a coming star of the first magnitude.

She was always a worker and always a
student. If you go to see a Norma Talmadge
film — especially the later ones — you will notice
that it is correct in every detail, and that
immense care has been taken in every little
— trifle connected with tho production.

Quite early in her career sho realised the
truth of the famous artiste's assertion that
trifles make perfection.

Endowed as she is with a most fascinating
personality, she does not roly upon that alone.
The background has to bo right.

She takes immense pains to select the right
kind of story, and then in the production she
studios every item with the utmost care.

Now that she has her own studio, and, with
the assistance of her husband, produces her
own pictures, she is ablo to exercise control

over every detail. Sho is always ready to take
advice and to accept suggestions from people
who know, but the final decision is her own.

As an example of the conscientious and serious
attitude she adopts towards her profession, it may
be mentioned that she has recently established
at her studios a permanent research department.

A large staff of workers has been engaged,
and their business is to provide the producer
with all he requires, in order to give an accurate
setting to the story which he is filming.

It takes five to seven weeks to make a picture.
During this time the director has about all
he can do to concentrate on the story and the
interpretation of the various parts.

It is an enormous help to him to have someone
at his side who can spend hours and hours,
if necessary, at the library, looking up tho
correct cut of a courtier's silken knickerbockers
in 1599, the particular way women dressed
their hair in China in one of the small villages
at some period B.C., the wedding ceremonies
of the Umqua Indians, the particular minuet
danced at the court of Louis XIV, and so forth.

The research department has to know about
the costumes of all periods and all countries,
as well as the etiquette and social customs of
many peoples of many lands. What it does
not know about these things it must be able
quickly to find out.

A Real Artist.

TOO often these little matters have been slurred
over or " faked " in an otherwise careful
production. -
" We can't spend time and money on such
trifles," says tho ordinary producer. ''The
play's the thing. If we get a good story,
accuracy doesn't matter. The public won't
know the difference."

" But the public does know the difference,"
declares Norma Talmadge. "Arc you pro-
ducers blind ? Can't you see how condiMons
have changed in the last few years, and are
still changing ? Tho day has gone by when
you can thrust any old thing on the public with
a handful of thrills and a bit of knockabout
comedy. The silly, insincero old stories
won't do any more : nor will the cheap, slap-
dash production. The picture business is now
an art. People demand real stories, with clever
plots. That is why some of the best-known
names in the literary world are now associated
with the business. In the same way, picture
audiences are now growing more atod more
discerning about the production of the pictures.

" They watch very carefully nowadays the
furniture in your sets, the clothes you wear,
the million and oi:e things which give or take
awav ' tone ' from a picture."

" But surely people who go to the pictures
go for the story and for the star ! " objected
someone who was discussing the subject with
Miss Talmadge.

" Yes, and if you go to dine at a restaurant,
you go for the dinner. That is the chief thing.
But you liko it properly served, don't you ?
replied the actress quickty. " Audiences of
to-day have been educated up to better standards
than in the old days, and well-educated people
go' to the movies now who once considered
them vulgar. I want, to mako my pictures
attractive to all classes — to the high -school
teacher as well as to the day labourer. And if
tho high-school teacher knows more about the
architecture of the 12th century than the
little girl who sews on buttons, who happens
to occupy the next seat to hers, then it is up
to me to have the 12th century architecture
of tho door or window against which I am
screened accurate enough to please tho teacher
and perhaps to give the factory girl a sense

of the beautiful and of the fitness of things
which she could not have got from some faked
style of architecture which we hoped would pass."

If Norma Talmadge was a one-part actress,
the work of her research department would be
easier ; but her note is versatility. She can
take any kind of part, so long as it ha3 in it
the element of human interest.

There is, perhaps, no screen actress who can
portray the development of a character so
skilfully as Norma Talmadge. In this connection
a story may be told.

A well-known actor of the speaking stage,
who was wont to speak contemptuously of
the films, was induced to visit a picture house.
He saw Norma Talmadge. and he was con-
verted— so much so that for a time he could
talk of nothing else.

His friends chaffed him, and one of them said :
" She's pretty, isn't she ? "
" Oh, yes, I suppose so ! " was the reply.
" But that, isn't it, my boy. She's an artist."
" What did you see her in ? "
"I don't remember the name of the thing.
She takes the part of a slum kiddy know-n as
Puck."

" Oh, the old stuff ! "

" Wait a bit ; that's only the beginning.
When you see her first, she is just a dainty
little sprito of the cheap music-halls — short
skirts, hair down, half-child, half-woman.
Sho is the child-wife of the stage strong man,
a chap called Vulcan. He is a brute and knocks
her about."

" All this seems somewhat familiar," objectod
the friend.

" Quite so, but listen. I want to make you
understand what an artist that little woman is.
This is how the story goes. In spite of her
husband's cruelty, she forces her way up till
she becomes the most popular toe-dancer in
London. She has a scene where, dressed as a
dragon-fly, with great gaudy wings attached
to her little shoulders, she pirouettes and smiles
to her audiences. A gay, mischievous sprite
she looks, though her heart is breaking under
the tinsel. In that scene she is fine, and I
thought to myself, ' A clevor little character
actress.'

" But presently the story took a turn. A fire
breaks out in the theatre and the girl is saved by
a Captain Merryon. or some such name. He is a
British officer who has risen from the ranks. Ho
is another lonely soul like herself. Vulcan, the
brute of a husband, is believed to have perished
in the fire. Merryon asks the girl to marry him.
The frightened child gazes at him, and says,
' You are sure you won't beat me ? '

" They are married. After this the actress
gets her chance and the way she rose to it I
confess astounded me. The gradual transition
from the frightened child to the awakened
woman passionately in love with her husband,
who in order to advance his interests in India,
matches her wits with those of experienced men
and women of the world, is marvellously well
done. I should never have believed that it could
be done on the films. It only shows what a real
artist can do, no matter in what medium he or
she is working."

Constance's Chance.

" *70U are a star now, Norma. That's splendid
Y of course, and I'm awfully glad and

proud and all that, but '

Constance paused, and from the depths of a

comfortable cane chair looked up whimsically

at her famous sister. They were all now in

California, and just beginning to get accustomed

to the new life.

Constance was always something of a tomboy.

with a quaint and humorous way of expressing

herself.

She adored Norma, but could rnroly refrain
for a whole day from chaffing her.

" What do you moan by ' but ' t " said
Norma, smiling.

Constance assumed a very solemn expression.

"You are a star, and for the rest of our live*
(Con'.in ed on pege 20.)

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paoe 18 )

we ahall worship you — with folded hrtnds and
eyas dazzled by your splendour we shall sit and
pazs at you while you go from triumph to
triumph. Won't it be nice ? "
Norma laughed.

"Silly kid," sho said affectionately. "You
will soon be doing big things yourself."

So, no!" interposed Connie, in mock
despair. " Seek not to rouse vain hopes within
my young bosom. My career is nipped in the
bud. At the Vitagraph I had a chance — just a'

wee little chance^but here "

Sir. Griffith was asking about you to-day,"
eaid Norma casually.

"Eh?"

Constance was on her feet, all her langour
gone, and a very eager light in her bright eyes.

Fact ! He wants to see you to-morrow.
He is bringing out a new thing — an enormous
production. The biggest thing that has ever
been done. It is called ' Intolerance.' He thinks
there is a part in it for you."

" For me ? "

" \es, he has seen you on the screen. There
isn't much ho doesn't see. And he fancies you
are jv.st what he wants for the part."

" Oh ! " cried Constance, clasping her hands.
" What a man ! What intelligence ! I always
said he was great. But," she added, suddenly
breaking off, " is it a real part ? "

"I believe so; something really good. But
you will hear all about it to-morrow."

Connie gave her sister a suspicious look.

" Norma, you — you deceiver, you have done
this! You have talked him round."

Norma shook her head, laughing.

" Not at all," she declared. I have told
hira all along that he must give you a chance, of
course ; but he has selected you for this part
entirely on his own judgment. He is quite
enthusiastic. He says he has been struck by
your pretty face, your slim figure, and your
gallant bearing."

" Oh, ray ! " gasped Constance, with a comical
grimace. " Anyway, it is glorious news. Excuse
me, old girl, 1 must go and tell Peg."

The next day she saw Mr. Griffith, and was
chosen by him to play the Mountain Girl in
" Intolerance."

In the section of that wonderful production
devoted to the Babylonian period she took the
lead. It was a splendid chance for so young an
actress, and how splendidly she tool* advantage
of it all the world knows.

But Constance did not achieve this success
without hard work.

In one section of the film she had to do hard
chariot riding, and the rehearsals for this were
both strenuous and exciting. It took her some
time to acquire the art of standing properly in
the rocking and swaying chariot as it was
dragged by wildly racing horses round the arena,
and for weeks she came home every day covered
with bruises, and with her knees black "and blue.

But she stuck to it gamely, and at length
acquired a perfect balance, with the result that
when she is seen on the screen in this part the
ease and grace of her slim, girlish figure are a
delight to behold.

With this picture Constance Talmadge leaped
into fame at a single bound, and fromAhat day
she has been an acknowledged star. '

•' Scandal," " The Honeymoon," " A Pair of
Blue Stockings," "Mrs. LeffiugweH*s Boots,"
" Bomance and Arabella," " Two Weeks,"
" In Search of'a Sinner," " Tho Perfect Woman,"
are but a few of her films which will be remem-
bered by all lovers of bright, wholesome comedy.

When Constance made her first sensational
success it was believed that the third member
of the family would at last be tempted to try
her fortune on the screen.

But Natalie was still obdurate. She rejoiced
in the succoss of her two sisters, but still per-
sisted that she had neither talent nor taste for
the business.

At the same time she refused to be idle, and
60on after the family arrived at Los Angeles she

became private secretary to Roscoe Arbucklet
She enjoyed this work, and proved very
skilful in business matters ; but both Norma
and Constance never ceased to try to persuade
her to become a screen actress.

" Sooner or later you will join us," said Norma
one day. " You havo real talent if you would
only let yourself go. I am sure of it."

Natalie laughed and shook her head.

" Never ! " she declared. " The only part of
the picture business which appeals to me is the
awful amount of money you make out of it.
And you know very well, Norma, that an artist
is not made that way. You and Con have
succeeded because you both love the work. It
interests you. It does not interest me."

" Well, we shall see. Wait till I have a studio
of my own," said Norma. " I will have a part
written specially for you, and if you don't take
it I will get Peg to bully you until you do."

And, as a matter of fact, it was just in this
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"Well," replied the irrepressible Constance,
" you know what became of the ugly duckling
in the end. She surpassed all the others."

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IN THE DRESSING-ROOM.

Overhauling tke Winter ^Wardrobe — Cleaning Your Furs and Gloves
— Freshening Your Frocks — Tke Picture Girl s Magyar Blouse.

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soiled.

When they are quite clean, take them off,
squeeze out the petrol, pull them into shape —
seeing that all the fingers are quite straight —
and hang them over a clean line in the open air
to dry.

Grey or tan gloves can next be cleaned in the
same manner, and in the same petrol. Very
dark gloves that have become particularly soiled
will need a second bowl of petrol to remove all
the dirt.

Evening Slippers.

PALK coloured evening shoes will also clean
perfectly with petrol. If only slightly
soiled, rub them over with a rag dipped in
the petrol, but if the dirt is grimed in, then they
should be put bodily in the petrol, and brushed
gently the right way of the saMn, with a soft
brush, until all marks have disappeared. Take
them out of the basin, and stirff the toes firmly
with tissue paper, and leave out in the air until
they are nearly dry. Then take out the paper,
and place immediately in the dustbin, in case
of contact with flames, and leave the shoes to
dry thoroughly in the open air.

Perhaps your black satin slippers have
become worn at the toe, and the white
canvas foundation peeps through threads of
the fabric. Remedy this by first painting
with black dye, and then neatly covering
the shoe with a piece of fine gold or silver
lace. The finished effect will be distinctly
gratifying, and give the appearance of a new
pair of brocade slippers.

The Picture Girl's Blouse.

' | 'HERE is a distinct charm
about the Magyar blouse,
especially for dressy wear,
and it is particularly com-
mendable on account of
the small quantity of
material needed for its
fashioning. The Picture
Girl has a good many in
her wardrobe, but prettiest
of all is her newest — just
a simple little affair of
pale grey crepe-de-Ohine,
on which is printed cherry-
coloured fruit.- The design
has a square neek and
short sleeves, and both
are bound with cherry
silk binding. The very latest
draped band takes the fulness
at the waist.

You can obtain patterns of
this blouse in 22, 21, 26, and
28 inch waist sizes, for one
shilling each from Picture
Show Pattern Department,
291a, Oxford Street, London,
W. 1. P.O. to be made pay-
able to the Picture Show.
Heaps of other designs can be
seen at the above address.

A Dresser,

No. 28,456.— A deligntfnl Magyar
blouse, specially designed for the
"Picture Girl" by the editress
of HOME FASHIONS.

JAZZ AND
GENTILITY.

THE BALLS OF FIFTY
YEARS AGO.

IT is rather amusing to turn over an old
volume of Pinch and sec pictures of t ho
balls of the 'seventies — the women with
voluminous skirts and elaborate coiffure, the
men with ultra-long trousers and side-whiskers,
the rows of bored chaperones. What would
those decorous ladics> have said to our scant;
frocks and bare arms', or to the " deplorably
masculine" fashion of "bobbing" the hair?

A dance in those days was a far more formal
affair. The debutantes were chaperoned by
discreet mammas ; they did not dance too
much for fear of getting unbecomingly flushed ;
they did not display their arms in the bold
fashion of the 1920 girl ; all defects were
hidden under long white kid gloves. Only in
a very natural vanity did the girls of those
days resemble the maidens of our own time.

The modern girl has a harder task to keep
herself looking fresh and pretty through a long
and arduous evening of " Jazz," " Hesita-
tion," and " Fox-Trot." Dancing is too apt
to make one look " shiny " and hot, and the
enthusiastic dancer will not spare a second to
disappear into the dressing-room to powder
her face. " Wouldn't it be lovely," several
girls have said to me, "if there was something
to put on your face — not real make-up, you
know — that would look nice all the evening
without any further trouble ? "

And to these I reply, " There is something.
Get an ounce of cleminite from your chemist.
Dissolve it in water and bottle it. Before you
go to your dance, shake the bottle well, and
bathe your face with the lotion, rubbing lightly
until it is dry. That will give you all the nice
' bloom ' of powder without hurting your skin
in the least, and the effect will last for several
hours."

GLOVES v. BARE ARMS.

The Victorian miss and her mamma would
certainly deplore our casting aside of the con-
ventional long kid gloves as " excessively
ungenteel." So also does tho woman of to-
day, whose arms are better hidden than
displayed. Certainly, though a pretty arm
gains much admiration, an ugly, hairy one
ruins the prettiest toilette. Many girls, whose
arms are otherwise white and shapely, suffer
from a growth of superfluous hair on them,
which is far from attractive. These, of course,
can be removed with very little trouble.
Shaving is undesirable, for not only is it very
tiresome, but the hairs grow again with in-
creased vigour. Electrolysis is painful and
expensive. The best method is to procure
some safe home-remedy ; pheminol is by far
the safest and most reliable drug to use. Most
chemists stock it ready for use in small 1 oz.
bottles ; all that is necessary is to add a little
water to about a teaspoonful of the powder,
and to apply the resulting paste to the super-
fluous hairs. Directly it has thoroughly dried
the hair can be easily and painlessly scraped
away with a thin piece of cardboard — a
visiting card will do.

Pheminol seems a little expensive ; but only
a very little is required, and it reduces the
future growth of hairs to a minimum.

Let all who have pretty arms then show
them. But those who are less well favoured
will be wise to moderate fashion a little, and
produce a little illusion with "camouflage"
sleeves of ninon or tulle.

PARKER BELMONT S CLYXOL KF.RRIES

FOR OBESITY. [ADVT.]

riclure Show, November bth, 1920.

(ROOKED STRAIGHT."

{Continued from
page 17.)

He stiffened and listened intently, but there was
no sound from upstairs to show the noise had been
I card. But all the same it had been. \ era, for
some reason or other was restless that night, and
she heard the noise made by the falling flower-pot.
Throwing a wrap over her shoulders, she crept
downstairs and. peering over the bannisters, she saw,
to her horror, her lover robbing her father s safe.

She held her breath as she drew back, undecided
what to do. ... , .

At that moment Chick Larrabee came in through
the library window and as she caught sight of the
second intruder she saw Ben creep behind a screen
near to the sale.

Ben had previously closed '.he safe and Larrabee
now set to work on it. He was much longer than
JSen had been in getting it open, but at last lie
Fwung back the door, and began to search for the
notes. A smothered imprecation burst from him as
he saw there was nothing in it but books and receipted
bills.

"The old hayseed must have taken it upstairs
wilh him," he muttered, " Well. I mean to get it
il 1 liave to crack him over the head to do it.

He began to climb up the stairs, but he had not
gone manv steps before Ben was on him. Ben
cared nothing about Larrabec's threats now. He
only knew that a dangerous crook was out torop,
and that the girl he loved was in danger, should she
discover him. - T . _

With a swift leap he threw himself on Larrabee.
He missed the hold he tried for and Larrabee got
him by the throat. Clenched in a deadly grip tne
two men struggled on the first landing of the stairs.
Ben butted Larrabee with his head, and made him
release his grip. Getting a waist hold he exertea
.ill his strength and threw Larrabee. The crook
tell against the bannisters, which gave way beneatn
his weight, and both men crashed to the floor.

Ben was partly stunned, and as he, picked himself
up he saw Sir. Owen running into the library followed
lv Vera, as Chick Larrabee disappeared through
lite library window. Outside the servants were
shouting and firing guns as they dashed after the
fugitive. . .

As Ben stood there wondering how he could ex-
plain his presence in the house he saw Mr. Owen
looking at him witli a puzzled air.

" What does this mean,. Ben, and how did you
come here ? " he said. . .

Ben tried hard to think of something to say, but
a? he stood hesitating Vera came to his rescue.

" I heard somebody moving about the house,
lather, and I telephoned to Ben," she said.

Having got this start Ben found his voice.

" Yes, that's it, Mr. Owen. I found the window
of the library open and when I got in the room I
saw the safe had been broken into. The burglar
was just going upstairs when I tackled him. We
tought on the stairs and the bannisters gave way. I
was stunned, and he got r.way through the window
just as 1 got to my feet."

" And he has got awav with my five thousand
dollars I " broke in Mr. Owen. " You look after
Vera, Ben. while I telephone to the police."

As her father left the room Vera looked Ben
straight in the face.

" I saw you take dad's money from the safe,
Ben," she said quietly. t>

" And you lied for me, believing mn to be guilty,
said Ben," his voice tense with emotion.

" I love you, Ben," said Vera slowly. " I sup-
pose that explains all."

" Well, you've no need to be ashamed of me this
lime, Vera," said Ben. "That other man you saw
was Chick Larrabee. He was going to rob your
lather and when he knew that I had got on to his
scheme, he threatened to give me away to the police
for a robbery I committed in the old days if I inter-
tered. There was only one thing to do ; that was
to rob the safe myself before he came. Your dad's
money is safe, I never meant to touch it. Say you
believe me, Vera ? "

" I do, Ben," replied the girl. " I might have
known you would never break your word to me."

She came to him with open arms and in the Idas
she gave him was a woman's trust, for then and all
time.

Then Ben got swiftly to work. He dropped the
bundle of notes among the papers Larrabee had
taken from the safe, and there they were found by
Mr. Owen when, at Vcra's suggestion, he made
another search.

" They must have dropped out of his pocket when
yon were struggling with him, Ben," said the farmer.
And Ben let it go at that.

While they were talking one of the farm hands
rushed in with the news that the burglar had been
shot dead by one of the men as he was running
across the meadow.

Ben and Vera exchanged glances.

"That means the last shadow of the old life is
lifted for ever from the new," said Ben, as he said
t'ood-nlght to Vera, at the porch. " When will you
be ready to marry me, Vera ? "

" As soon as you want me, Ben," whispered Vera,
as she kissed him once more.

IF you want to kno\v 'anything about Films or Film Players

DISAPPOINTING PROGRAMMES.

ONE of the chief attractions of a picture theatre lies
in the quality of its programme as a whole, and
not in any one particular feature of it. Not
always, however, does this simple fact receive the
attention it deserves, for sometimes the tendency is
to screen old pictures for which there is no demand,
or new ones of inferior quality, on the principle that
everything passes for entertainment.

The usual method, of course, is to tempt the public
by means of a single feature attraction. There is
nothing to be said against this method provided that
care is taken to balance the rest of the programme
with items quite as good. What does happen at some
theatres, however, is that a thrilling serial or an
attractive complete story is prominently advertised.
The star's name may be that of a well-known favourite,
or the public may have already been made acquainted
with the merits of the play. In this way interest is
aroused concerning that particular feature, though
nothing whatever may be known regarding the merits
of the other items.

It is here that the pubUc is at a disadvantage. On
the bill outside the bare mention of other titles com-
prising another drama, a comedy or news film, or
whatever else the programme may include, often
conveys no indication of their merit. Nevertheless,
the public pays to go in and see them all. The exhibi-
tor, on the other hand, having filled his theatre,
assumes that the whole programme must be good.
There is no logic in that assumption. Nor is the
theory always correct.

It is the big feature which invariably acts as the
magnet, and, whatever an audience may think of
the rest of the programme, it prefers, as a rule, to sit
and see it through rather than get up and leave. At
the same time, it is up to the public to let the exhibitor
know when it has reason to be disappointed with the
quality of any of the pictures shown. This can be
done by courteously informing the manager of the
theatre of the fact either personally or by letter. It
is the only method by which the public is hke'y to
get eventually what it really wants.

THE EDITOR.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Will readers kindly remember that as this paper
goes to press a considerable time before publica-
tion, letters cannot be answered in the next issue ?
A stamped and addressed envelope must accom-
pany any letter requiring an early reply. Every
letter should give the full name and address of
the writer (not for publication), as no anonymous
communications can be answered. Address : The
Editor, " Picture Show," Room 85, The Fleetway
House, Farringdon Street, London, EX. 4.

A. K. C. (Reading). — Now yon must be good and
not throw any brickbats at " Vamplro," for I notice
in sticking up for British films you say " we can,
and have, made quite as good and sometimes-, better,
pictures than those of any other country." Tint's
so. Violet Hopson can be seen in " A Turf Con-
spiracy," " A Daughter of Eve," and " A Gentleman
Rider." Yes, Nazimova Is wonderful.

A. K. S. (Barking). — I have no doubt Mae Marsh
will like your painted portrait of her. Frank Kcenau
reached the age of fifty-two on April Pth last. Tom
Moore was born near KcUs Co. Meath, Ireland.

"A Schoolgirl " (Olapharn). — You may rejoice.
For since you say you like blue eyes better than any
other, Ralph Graves has them. He was in " What
Am I Bid ? Pronounce Pauline Frederick's first
name as Pawleen.

" Betty Blue " (Gravesend). — You have n"ver
written to mc before. Ah, well, you are th« one I
have always missed 1 So you want Jack Hoxic's
photo ? He was brought up on a cattle ranch, and
proved himself quite a clever rider in several champion
ship contests before starting his film career. He
was born in Oklahoma.

"Glad" (Worthing). — How many, many years
ago did you see the films you mention 1 They must
have impressed you wonderfully. In " Adam Bede,"
the chief artistes were Malvina Longfellow, Ivy Close,
Bransby Williams, and Gerald Ames.

Gwt.s (Calcutta). — I am sorry you had a difficulty
in getting some of your copies of this paper. I am
afraid your previous letter must have been lost in
transit, but since vou have repeated your question,
it was the late Gaby Deslys who, with Harry Piker,
appeared in the films mentioned.

Marjorie (Cheam).— Believe not the rumours
which kill this or that artiste, for Marguerite Clark
is alive. Yes, Ruth Roland was the star in "The
Tiger's Trail." Dorothy Gish is single, but our old
friend Richard is not.

N. F. (Drogheda). — The busiest man is he who
finds lime for many things. The answer to your
tiny request is that Thomas Meighan and Betty
Compson were the leads in " The Miracle Man."
Warren Kerrigan is thirty-one.

A. M. J. (Blaena von).— Though I have never met
Elmo Lincoln I should sav he is nice. Gene Pollard
was chosen for " The Return of Tarzan." Klmo was
born in Rochester, Indiana, on February 6th, 1889.
His real name is Otto Elmo Linkcnhelt, and at one -
time he was a fireman on a railway locomotive

" Diskum Atjssie " (Bunbury). — Question marks
dance before mv eyes all day, and sometimes even
haunt my dreams. But I am used to it. William
Scott, who has been screen villain so often, was born
thirty-seven years ago in New York. He has appeared
in " AmariUv of Clothes-line Alley," " Riders of the
Purple Sage," "True Blue," and " Pitfalls of a Big;
City." He doesn't tell us anything about his re-
lations.

Elsie (Cardiff) and " The Belle " (Cubitt Town).
— Since both of you want to know about A House
Divided." I have paired you off. In this film,
Sylvia Breamer was Mary Lord, Herbert Rawlinson,
opposite her, was Philip Carmichael, and Bob Baldwin
was Lawrence Grossmith. Priscilla Dean and
Ashton Dearholt were iu " The Two-Souled Woman.'

" HACT " (Lewes). — Gregory Scott took the part
of Reid Gordon in " A Great Coup," the Bioadwest
film. Others mentioned in the cast were Stewart
Rome as Squire Hampton. Cameron Carr (Hichant
Foxton), and Poppy Wyndham (Kate Hampton).
No other actress' name is given.

Betty (Newcastle- on -Tyne). — The hooks in
question were written by a man. Norma Talmadge
is three years older than Constance, who is just ox er
twenty. The latter has golden hair and brown eyes.
Other' information has been given elsewhere.

L. L. (New Southgrite), Cynthia (Liverpool), E. J.
(Brockley), C G. H. (Yarmouth), M. C. 15. (Wednes-
burv), D. T. (Southport), "Tosw.vLSH" (New
Maiden), Freddie (Hull), "Two Lawsidites"
(Dundee), Eileen (Southampton), D. B. (North-
ainntoii), L. F. (Wlnchmore Hill), D. D. (Muswell
Hill), D. L. M. (Felixstowe), N. L. (Bermondsey),
Beryl (Birmingham), "CURIOCS " (London. N ). A. V.
(Liverpool), G. W. (Merton). C. D. (Chelmsford),
M. C. (Port Elizabeth), H. C. R. and K..P. P. (Ilford),
and Tessa (Cheltenham). Sorry, but other curious
folk have just been given on this page the same
information for which you have asked. However,
don't hesitate to write to me again about something
else.

"ASMOCS" (Handsworth). — You should never
look a gift horse, or a film artiste, in the mouth. 1
don't, so how eould I possibly say wh-ther any
film stars have false teeth or not 1 Won't you ask
me something easier ?

W. B. (Peckham). — I was interested in your criti-
cism of the British film you saw. The producer
eertalnlv ought to have been more careful. But lot
me. in fairness, remind you that several American
pictures have contained amusing blunders, especially
in scenes attempting to depict the customs of this
countrv. However, let me hear from you often.
It was* Charles Spore who took the part of Knid
Bennett's screen brother In " A Desert Wooing."
(Afore answers next week.l

Adapted, by permission, from incidents in the famont
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Famous Readers of the " Picture
Show.

No. 44.— MARY MASSART.

MARY MASSART, the dainty little star who
is playing the leading feminine role in
the StoII version of Sax Rohmer's mystery
story of " The Yellow Claw," is a keen lover of
the Pictcrk Show. She is seen above looking
up after admiring the centre pictures of (Jeorges
Carpentier, the famous boxer, who is starring in
" The Wonder Man " film.

Miss Massart will be more than interested in
this issue, for Ijesides the photograph of her. she
will be able to read the story ot " The Wonder
Man," which begins on page 6. Miss Massart
will not be alone in enjoying the story, will she ?

I know all my readers will turn eagerly to this
page and read of a real hero in a hero part on
screen and in story.

A Hint for To-morrow.

TO-MORROW, Tuesday, is the date for the
fourth number of the." Girls' Cinema " to
greet you on your way. There is a most
charming plate presented with this issue.
Charles Ray and Seena Owen in a delightful love
scene. The title of which is " Say Yes."

If you have not yet seen this splendid— and
1 use the adjective that, everyone who has
written me about it used— little paper, don't let
to-morrow pass without getting a copy. I don't
t-sk much from you. I don't ask you to buy it
every week, only one copy to-morrow, for I know
you will not need asking to buy future copies.

The "Girls' Cinema" is a paper that every'
girl fond of the Picture Show cannot afford
to miss.

Poor May.

I HEAR from a friend in California that the
residents of Hollywood are bemoaning the
fact that they were not up in the early
hours of one morning last week, as they thereby
missed seeing a startling reproduction of Lad}'
Godiva's famous ride, by May Allison, which is
to appear in the coming photo-play, " The
Marriage of William Ashe."

The horse on which Miss Allison, attired only
In a long flowing wig, was seated, became excited
by the lights and the clicking of the camera in the
studio, and bolted through an archway, down the
streets of Hollywood. '

A chauffeur eventually captured the frightened
nnimal, and brought him, and the blushing star,
back to the studio. " I'm glad it was three
o'clock in the morning," says Miss Allison.

As He Really Is.

PICTURE-GOERS who -have watched the
clever character work of Raymond Hatton,
will have an opportunity of seeing him as
he really is in two new Goldwyn productions.
Hatton makes up so cleverly that few people
who have seen him ori the screen would recognise
him in real life. But in " Head Over Heels,"
with Mabel Normand and in " The Conceit,"
he is to play straight roles. In the former he
impersonates a press agent, and in the latter,
takes the part of a young doctor.

In between he played a Scotch part in " Bunty
Pulls the Strings," in which he was completely
disguised by his costume.

Photqyrapk:? ard Paragraphs of Picture;. Play^ and Players

A Proposal from the Skies.

ROMANCE is not dead —not by a long chalk !
For the latest gossip from Los Angeles
tells how, the other night, Ruth Roland
was in her garden playing in the moonlight with
" Laddie," her now police dog. when, veritably
out of the clouds came a dainty white parachute
with a gold basket attached, containing a tcn-
pound box of chocolates and a proposal of
marriage.

In the letter the daring young aviator who
had sent the parachute on its journey of lose,
told he was bashful in his adoration, and so hail
used a method he had successfully employed
while an ace in the w orld war.

Though Ruth refused, she did it very nicely —
told him he was adorably up-to-date, as that was
tlte Grst time she had enjoyed a bomb from the
sky.

A Request from Sarah Bernhardt.

LADY TREE is to be present at the first
exhibition in London of Louis Mercanton's
film, " Miarka," the screen version of
Jean Richepin's famous story, in which the lato
Madame Rejane made her last dramatic ap-
pearance.

Lady Tree is to be present in answer to the
following request she received by cable from
Madame Sarah Bernhardt :

" My dearest Friend. — Will you be my in-
terpreter, or rather my proxy, and represent me
at the first appearance of ' Miarka, the Child of
the Bear,' in which our wonderful Rejane is to
lie seen for the last time ? I am quite well now,
and would come to London myself if the diffi-
culties of the journey were not so trying. I
count on your doing me this favour because of
your friendship for me, and your admiration for
Rejane, and I send you expressions of my
affectirJhate remembrance.

" Sarah Bernhardt."

To this Lady Tree replied that she would be
proud and delighted, receiving by return a
further telegram :

" All my thanks with all my heart.

" Sarah Bernhardt."

You Can See for Yourself.

THOSE of you who are anxious to see what
the interior of a film studio looks like
whilst the films are actually being taken,
can see it in the Broadwest film, " The Romance

of a Movie Star," in which Violet Hopson.
Stewart Rome, Gregory Scott, and Cameron
Can- appear in important parts.

In this film are included some very fine views

of London and EZngUsh count ry. Picture-goera
cannot fail to recognise the view from the top ot
Richmond Hill, and most interesting scenes are
shown in a movie studio.

Eva's Advice to Wives.

ALMOST as many husbands are driven from
home by wives who lavish too much at-
tention on them as leave because their
wives neglect them. So believes Eva Novak.

" Men were intended to be the aggressors
in the battle of love." she says, "and women
were cast to play defensive parts. Warrior.*,
once they have completely subdued their op-
ponents, are likely to seek other adversaries.
So it is with husbands, and the woman who baa
been wooed and won. und then displayed her lovo
by too frequent and flagrant fuss and demon-
stration, is apt to overdo, with disastrous
results.

" Men like attention from women, but not too
flagrant attention. My advice to the wife IB
to be sane and conservative in the treatment ot
her husband, and to retain much of that reserve
which marked her courtship."

Her Eighteenth Birthday.

EDITH ROBERTS has just returned to
Universal City after a month's holiday iti
New York, her birthplace. It was her
first real holiday for several years, and you may
guess she made the most of it, especially as her
eighteenth birthday fell during the time she
spent in New York. She was feted by her former
school churns, and a feast was given in her
honour. The only drawback to the occasion
was the loss of a valuable pearl necklace which
had belonged to her mother.

New York police are still searching for the
missing gems.

It Was Hot.

HARRY CAREY is now taking the part of
the tramp poet, " Sundown Slim," in the
picture of that name. It is a story that
tells how a tramp poet is thrown into the midst
of a sheep ranchers' and cattlemen's feud, and
depicts the regeneration from a cowardly tramp
to a contented and fearless ranch owner.

PEGGT BEAMS, the pretty nine and a half year old girl who is in great demand as a photographer's model,
and who is now making a name for herself on the screen. We can see her in " Our Girls and Their Physique "

and the " Game of Life " films.

1'icture Show, November 13th, 1920.

"PICTURE SHOW" CHAT. (COTff,"1.f° m

Great trouble was experienced in filming the
desert scenes of this picture, because of the
excessive heat of tho Arizona desert. It was
necessary to keep the camera covered by a
heavy ice pack, and rush the finished film out
of the desert every day by motor. To prevent
sunstroke, the actors all wore lettuce leaves in
their hats.

— ♦+ —
Two New Features.

1MUST not forget to tell you that thore are
two splendid new features in this week's
issue of our companion paper, the Boys'
Cinema. One is the beginning of the world-
famous story, "The Return of Tarzan," and
the other is a new series of tales of the West,
told by Tom Mix, the cowboy star.

Geraldine Wishes Rumour Denied.

GERALDINE FARRAR has asked me to
deny the current report that she is to
abandon the movies. Although the
operatic stage is very insistent that Geraldine
should let them hear her, we may rest assured
that we shall see her for some time yet on the
screen.

EVELYN BOUCHER, who
appeared as Toni in
"The Flame," the Olive
Wadsley novel filmed by
the Stoll Company.

RUttijr MILLER appearing
in the Stoll picture ver-
sion of "The Mystery o!
Mr. Bernard Brown."

The Servant Problem Solved.

FRITZI BRUNETTE has solved the servant
problem. Year in and year out, ever since
her friends can remember, Fritzi has had
the same maid. The other day she was asked
how she managed it.

" Well, you see," said Fritzi, " the average
housekeeper has failed to keep a maid for long
becauso they fail to treat them with proper tact.
Women call their} maids^skiv vies, Mary Janes,
generals, housekeeper, or took. This is very
bad diplomacy."

" What do you call your maid X " she was
asked.

" My domestic secretary," replied Fritzi.
— v» —

Where to Find Loyalty.

IRENE RICH has something to add to the
general discussion about the servant prob-
lem.

" If you want loyalty," she advisos, "engage
a Philippine servant, and if you can't find one
here, make a trip to the Philippine Islands, and
get one."

Miss Rich has reason for hor favouritism.
Several years ago she lived in Honolulu, and
engaged there a nativo servant, named — by
hor — Willy Wood. Willy was faithful and
devoted, and all that a servant should be. But
Miss Rich never suspected the depths of his
loyalty.

Tho other day a dark-skinned youth appeared-
at the Goldwyn Studios, and asked for her. Of
course it was Wiliy. He had heard, even hi
Honolulu, x)f her success on the screen, and
followed hor all tho way to Culver City in the
hopo of being able to work for her again.
— —

Why the World is Hard.

SEENA OWEN has a sense of humour. She
was talking the other day to her director,
who was bemoaning tho fact that it was a
hard, hard world.

" Yes, you're right, but do you know why J "
asked Scenu.

" No t "

" Beeaune all tho soft jobs r.ro taken," Miss
Owen assured him with a laugh.

Lost His Opportunity.

WILLIAM RUSSELL has a very good
friend to whom ho has been attached by
the tonderest bonds of sympathy and
understanding for a long number of years. He
never goes anywhere without him, and though
this friend is neither young, handsome, nor
artistic, he -frequently presumes so much upon
this long-standing friendship to obtrude his
shabby presence between Mr. Russell and the
camera, and has managed by sheer " pull " on
the part of his influential friend to even sneak
his way into many a picture. On some occa-
sions, in fact, Mr. Russell finds his rather
disreputable old pal indispensable in achieving
some particular effect, and the other day work
was held up some time at the Fox Studios, for
Big Bill suddenly made the appalling discovery
that he had lost his affinity. The whole com-
pany heaved a sigh of relief when a propei ty
man strolled in and nonchalantly mquiring,
" Is this yours ? " restored to William Russell
his pet pipe of English briar.

Charlie's Early Days.

COURTENAY FDOTE, the English actor,
who came out to America with Sir Herbert
Beerbohm Tree, was at the Chaplin
Studio the other day and was amusing us with
some stories of the times when Charlie was
working for the Essanay Company. When ho
was doing " The Bank," it appears he used to
get very depressed and worried, wondering
whether the public would stand for a comedy
with a strong undercurrent of sadness. Mr.
Foote, who is incidentally a born humourist
himself, feelingly described how Charlie used
to drop into his place of an evening, at onco
divest himself of his shoes and socks, and seat
himself in front of his friend's hearth, whilst
Mr. Foote, as he put it, " tried to coax the fire
into being a fire." Later in the evening they
would adjourn to the kitchen and between
them get a Bohemian repast ; later they would
Bottle down comfortably for a talk, thelatter
interspersed by the occasional sizzle of a cigar-
ette ash flicked off into the kitchen sink.

Fay Filmer.

AN INTRODUCTION.

Special Correspondent for British Studios.,

MASTER ROBY, known as "Bubbles" in film
circles, on account ol his remarkable likeness
to the boy in Millais' masterpiece. He has
appeared in a number of films, among which
can be mentioned "Betba the Gipsy " and "The
Temptress."

EDITH NEPEAN.

IT has always been tho policy of the Pictube
Show to give to its readers news, photo-
graphs, and stories of the best films and the
most popular cinema players..

Until comparatively recently, America and
the Continent supplied practically all the
pictures shown over here. There were, of course,
British producers, all honour to them, but they
were few in number, and fighting an uphill
battle, by reason of the fact that this country
was years behind America in the film industry.

The Time Has Now Come.

TO-DAY, Great Britain is a real rival to
America, a fact recognised by thousands
of our readers, who write every week
asking the Picture Show to encourage British
films. This has always been the policy of this
paper, but now that the number of British
producers has so vastly increased, and the films
have inproved so much, the Picture Show
intends to devote the entire two centre pages
weekly to news and photographs of British
films, players and producers.

To this end, Edith Nepean, the well-known
novelist, has joined the Picture Show, as its
British studios correspondent. She will act for
this paper as our residential correspondents in
Los Angeles and New York ore now doing.

Welcome to British Films.

MUCH of the success of American films is
due to the persistent booming of the
industry. The value of publicity is
recognised much more in the States than it is
here. The British producer in the past has
suffered from his modesty. He has been con-
tent to let tho public judge for themselves. But
while that is a soiuul maxim — for the patron
of the cinema must always bo the final judge —
the up-to-date producer, when ho has got a good
thing, will take caro to let tho public know.

We of the Picture Show can assure tho
British producer that the cineina-going public
of the country arc only too anxious to patronise
British films, when they are worthy of patronage.
Every week we receive hundreds of letters
bearing out this statement.

Exclusive Stories of British Filmland.

EDITH NEPEAN, whose first novel,
"Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills," was
dedicated by special permission to tho
Rt. Hon. David Lloyd Georgo, is well known'
in film circles,. and even in the dark days of tho
British film industry, she had always an un-
shakable belief that the early struggles of tho
pioneers would eventually meet with success.

Week by week she will give to tho readers of
the Picture Show exclusive stories about their
favourites of the British screen, and up-to-date
information about British films.

A Request to Our Readers.

MAY I ask a favour of our readers T In this
latest addition to the many features of
tho Picture Show, I shall bo glad to
receive your opinion of British films and British
players. We of the Picture Show lmvo never
made any secret that tho outstanding success of
this paper has l)cen duo as much to tho helpful
suggestions of our readers as to ourselves. |

The Editor.

riclurc Sftow, Nooembir 13W, 1920.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA FOR THE " PICTURE SHOW/3

Our representative calls at the Metro Film Studios, and gives MR. LAKE, Director
o! Publicity, bis weekly copy of the "Picture Show." MR. LAKE looks as though he
is very pleased to receive it.

NAOMI CHILDERS, a pretty Goldwyn film player, sat on the front
of her car to have her photograph taken for the PICTURE SHOW
before going for a spin.

A happy-looking group, mostly composed of the Cudahy family, who are all members of Monroe Salisbury's company. Left to right are: DR. JOHN MOORE,
the Cudahys' family physician ; MRS. JACK CUDAHY ; ERNEST KING, Monroe Salisbury's Valet ; MISS ANN CUDAHY ; MILTON MARKWELL.
juvenile lead ; MASTER MICHAEL CUDAHY ; JACK CUDAHY ; JOHN R. CUDAHY (standing) ; MONROE SALISBURY ; DONALD CRISP, his director :

and MRS. DONALD CRISP.

LUCILLE CARLISLE, who is leading lady to — well, you can see his photograph
in front of her, and you are sure to recognise LARRY SEMON.

TOD SLOAN, the world-famous jockey, visited the studio of RUTH ROLAND,
Pathe star, and they ran a race. It would be interesting to know who woa.

Picture Show, Xovcmlcr lith, 1920.

(WONDER-,

IT was the opening night of the social season of
the Potomac Ridge Club — one of the most
exclusive institutions of its kind in America.
The Potomac was unique in many ways.
It could not — like so many clubs in England —
demand that its members should be able to show
an unbroken line of aristocratic descent, or at
least have no connection with commerce, for
America being a commercial country, it follows
that its leading citizens must be business men ;
but its committee could, and did insist, that
the men who sought membership, or who were
introduced as guests, should be above suspicion,
judged either from the standpoint of business or
the social standard.

The Potomac, among many other things on
which it based its title to be the finest club in
America, pointed with pride to the fact that
the wives, daughters, and women friends of its
members were, in the eyes of its committee,
quite as important as the male members.

If the latter had their splendidly equipped
gymnasium, baths, training-track, tennis-court,
golf links, billiard-rooms and cardrooms, the
women, in addition to sharing most of these,
had their private tea-gardens and reception-
rooms, and in what might be termed mixed
social events, where non-members were invited
to the club, the women were more strongly
represented than the men on. the committee
that sent out the invitations.

On this opening night of the season, the
Potomac was ablaze with light, and hundreds of
pounds had been spent on the floral decorations.

On a balcony overlooking the magnificent
ballroom stood Mr. Robert E. Stoner, one of the
heads of the firm of The Western Machino Cor-
poration, a firm that was supplying France with
immense quantities of military equipment.

He was a man about forty years of age, with
a keen but pleasant face.

He was smiling down at Mrs. Stoner — his
second wife, a hundsome, but rather dissatisfied-
looking woman about eight veal's his junior.

She was talking to E. Guiscon Steven, Mr.
Stoner's partner, a middle-aged man with a keen
face but rather shifty eyes. The two were
joined by a young man, tall, well-built, and
rather aggressive -looking. Ho was passably
good-looking, but there was something in the
sardonic cast of the dark-complexioned face and
the cold, domineering eyes, which would have
indicated to the close observer that Alan Gardner
was a man accustomed to getting his own way,
and that he would not bo over particular as to
the means he employed to get it.

Gardner was an agent who acted for the firm
of Stoner .& Steven in their doalings with the
French Government.

After he had exchanged greetings with Mrs.
Stoner and Steven, Gardner gave an almost
imperceptible backward inclination of his head
and whispered something, which, to judge from
tho sneering expression on his face, was not vory
complimentary to tho person to whom it re-
ferred.

Mrs. Stoner and Steven turned casually and
focussed their attention on a young man in the
uniform of an ollicer in the French army.

Ho was a man who would havo commanded
attention in a gathering ten times as large as
that which now filled the Potomac Club.

Just under six feet in height, he was so splen-
didly proportioned that his figure almost seemed
slight, but any physical culturist would have
instantly known that the well-fitting uniform
covered a body that, had all the strength and
suppleness of a panther.

His face was strikingly handsome.

It would havo served a sculptor for the face
of one of the ancient Greeks when that race of
supermen was at its zenith.

Tho thick, chestnut-coloured hair was brushed

Trie Story in wkick Geo
the WorU-F amous Boxer, plays tke part
ofH enrt E) Alour in tke Ideal pkoto-play,
wkick w ill skortly ke sk own tn all tke lead-
ing Picture Houses in tke Britisk Isles.

straight back from the forehead, accentuating
the classical outline of the features, but what was
perhaps the most pleasing characteristic about
the young man — he was not much over twenty —
was his unaffected boyishness.

Henri D' Alour, despite his terrible experiences
on the Western battle front, was still full of tho
joy of life.

Robert Stoner smiled to himself as he looked
on D'Alour, but the smile quickly changed to a
frown as he heard the young man's name men-
tioned by two men talking beneath the balcony.

" There's that protege- of Stoner's here
again," said one. " It's a queer thing that
nobody seems to know who D'Alour is or v/hat
he is doing here. It makes me tired the way
the girls run after him. One would think he was
a god, not a mere man."

He certainly does look like one of tlie gods of
mythology," replied the other. " I confess I have
never seen a more handsomo or fascinating young
man. But as you say, he is a bit of a mystery.
I think Stoner might have told us more about
him, since he brings him to the club so often."

" What womanish jealousy," muttered Stoner
as he moved away. " All the young men are
peeved with D'Alour because they have no
chance with the girls when he is around. And I
don't blame the girls either. Hello ! My
own little Dorothy is evidently of the same
opinion as the others."

His glance wandered to a petite and strikingly
pretty girl who had just come from one of the
inner rooms and joined D'Alour.

Dorothy was Stoner's only child.

Her mother was his first wife, and there was
not any groat affection between the present Mrs.
Stoner and tho girl.

This was revealed by tho cold nod she gavo
to the young couple as they passed her, but
D'Alour and Dorothy were too happy to worry
about Mrs. Stoner's scarcely veiled hostility. •

" I thought you were never coming," said tho
young man as they hurried out of the crowd to a
pulin court.

" I hope you were not prevented from enjoying
yourself with other girls through waiting for mo,'.'
said Dorothy with a pretence at anger. " There,
now, you know I am only teasing you," she went
on as she saw that D' Alour had taken her
seriously. " Really I simply rushed to get here
in timo. Look ! 1 have not even powdered
my nose."

She took out a little powder-puff and a tiny
mirror as she spoke and begun to dab at her
faco.

" I can't understand why you use that stuff
when nature has given you such a wonderful
skin," said D'Alour toastngly. i

" Makes mo feel grown-up," replied Dorothy
flippantly. " Still, that's quite the nicest thing
you've said to mo yot and you shall bo rewarded.

She gave tho young man a playful dab with
the powder-puff as she spoko.

" Now you'll have to lend mo your mirror,"
expostulated D'Alour, o.s he began to wipe off the
powder with his handkerchief. As ho looked in
the mirror the girl handed to him the smilo#
suddenly left his face and his jaws sot with a
snap.

Hovealod in tho glass was reflected from
behind hiin tho face of Alan Gardner.

There appeared to-be no reason why D'Alour's
expression should so suddenly change at the sight
of Gardner. The latter was not even looking in
the direction of the Frenchman, but was just
chatting easily with some fellow clubmen.

But that there was some latent antagonism
between the two men was evident from the look
on D'Alour's face.

It passed almost in an instant, and he was
the same smiling, debonnair young officer as he
handed the mirror back to Dorothy with a
courtly bow.

" Now that wo have both completed our
toilet," said Dorothy, " I think we might go to
the ballroom. I'm simply dying to teach you
that new two-step."

The Challenge.

THERE was an involuntary murmur of admi-
ration from the dancers as the two took
the floor.

Dorothy Stoner was recognised as the best girl
dancer iu the club, and Henri D'Alour danced
— as he did everything else — 'with an ease that
made other men envy him.

If he had only just begun to loam the new
dances he must have proved an exceedingly apt
pupil, for he made no mistakes, and even when
lie and Dorothy practised the new two-step in a
secluded part of the ballroom during an interval,
he seemed to know instinctively what to do, and
at the end of five minutes Dorothy declared him
to be proficient.

While D'Alour was dancing with Dorothy he
noticed that Gardner kept storing at him in a
very insolent manner, and ho could have sworn
that the agent was making derogatory remarks
about him to his friends.

But if D'Alour thought these things he took
no action.

One might almost have thought that he was
afraid of Gardner, so anxious did ho appear to
be to avoid a quarrel.

The dance passed off without any open quarrel
between l he two men, though Gardner's rudeness
was the cause of much comment among the men.

The next day Gardner's hostility to the French-
man took an open course.

D'Alour was in the gymnasium practising with
tho punching-ball, and at the other end of the
room Gardner was sparring with a fellow
member.

Gardner was the champion heavy-weight
boxer of the Potomac, and lie generally let all
know it who were foolish enough to spar with
him.

After hitting his opponent about with 'un-
necessary roughness, Oardner looked round for
unother victim.

" Soe that pretty French boy there ?" he
said to one of his cronies. " How would you
like to see me spoil his beauty. Ho wants
taking down a peg. 1

" Good idea, ' laughed the other, " if you can
persuade him to put tho gloves on, but I doubt
it."

Several other members gathered round ns
Gardner explained that' he meant to' take a rise
out of D'Alour.

Gardner was a bit of a bully, and, like all
bullies, ho had a number of toadies among his
friends.

It was a very unsportsmanlike tlu'ug that
Gardnor was suggesting.

Not only wus ho going to take advantage of
his boxing skill, but he was deliberately planning
to hit D'Alour as hard as lie could in what pur-
ported to bo a friendly spar.

" As soon as I get hiin off his guard, hoys, I'll
give him suoh a smashing uppcrcut that he'll
need a set of false teoth," he laughed.

Picture Show, Xovrmber Ulfi, 1920.

Sychophnnts though they were, some of
Gardner's friends thought this was playing a
very low-down game on one who was a guest of
tho'club, but they were all too afraid of Gardner
to make any protest.

" Like to have the gloves on for a couple of
rounds ? " shouted Gardner to D'Alour. " Jusfc
a friendlv spar, vou know."

" I shall be delighted ! " replied the French-
man, coming forward.

There wore many scarcely suppressed
titters from Gardner's friends as the Frenchman
ut on the_ gloves, but if he suspected that
le was being made the victim of a trick, D'Alour
gave no sign that he did so.

As soon as the men put up their hands
the spectators saw that the Frenchman was
no novice at the game.

As light on his feet as a dancing master,
his long arms moved in and out with a smooth-
ness that could only have come with years of
practice.

After attempting a light left lead to the
face, which D'Alour easily dodged by a quick
turn of his head, Gardner smashed in a right
to the stomach ; but the Frenchman had
anticipated the blow, and guarded it with an
ease that made Gardner look a bit foolish.

Then, bofore he could jump back, D'Alour
plantod two snappy lefts to his face.

" That guy can box some ! " whispered
the club instructor. " If our champion doesn't
look out, he'll be receiving a boxing lesson
instead of giving one."

The same thought had evidently struck
Gardner, for instead of holding his opponent
cheaply, as he had done at the start, he was
now putting in all he knew ; and that was
something considerable, for the agent was
undoubtedly one of the cleverest amateurs
in America.

He did not attempt another vicious blow,
but began to box at a fast rate.

A fast and very scientific spar followed, in
which honours were about even, though a
keen judge of the game would have seen that,
while Gardner was all out, D'Alour had some-
thing in reserve.

At the end of the round there was a spon-
taneous burst of applause. For once in a way,
Gardner had met a man who was as good as
himself.

Gardner had realised that D'Alour was his
master at boxing, but he felt that the Frenchman
was a quitter, and ho determined to test his
pluck.

" He's a pretty boxer, but I "bet you he
won't take a wallop ! " he whispered to the
man who was fanning him during the interval.

The second round was even faster than the
first, and though Gardner about held his own,
it was only by exerting himself to the uttermost,
whereas D'Alour was sparring with an ease
that showed he had a lot in reserve.

He was much quicker on his feet than Gardner,
and in the first minute of the round he twice
jumped in and planted his left glove straight
on Gardner's nose when, the latter thought he
was out of distance.

The club champion could See from the
faces of his friends that he was being made
to look cheap, and an ugly look came into
his eyes.

He meant to put D'Alour not only down,
but out. But, like the crafty fighter he was,
he did not give his scheme away.

Forcing a smile to his face, he boxed lightly ■
and shot out a word of praise whenever the
Frenchman did something smart.

This was tojmt D'Alour off his guard, and
in this Gardner succeeded.

The Frenchman had not been blind to the
viciousness of that right-hand punch in the
first round, and he had watched Gardner
very closely afterwards. But now, seeing his
opponent smiling and apparently boxing in the
best of humour, he relaxed his watchfulness.

Gardner got his opportunity following a
clinch.

In a friendly spar, it is the usual thing for
both boxers to step back after a clinch, and
then begin again.

D'Alour, who, had he been engaged in a real
fight, would have protected himself as he
stepped back, now moved away with both
hands down, leaving his face and body entirely
unprotected.

Like a flash. Gardner hooked his right to
t'io jaw.

Too late D'Alour saw the trap ho had fallen
into.

He coidd not altogether avoid the blow
but, by turning his head, he minimised its
force.

But even then the force of the punch was
such that he was ronderod helpless for tho
moment.

Even Gardner felt a little ashamed as ho
caught tho look on tho face of the club boxing
instructor.

" I think that will do, Mr. Gardner," said
the instructor significantly.

There was a dungero\is glint in tho French-
man's eyes as he half-drew away from tho
instructor, as though he intended to carry
on the contest ; but apparently he thought
better of it.

As he held out his hands for the instructor
to unfasten his gloves, he looked straight
at Gardner.

I thought this was a friendly spar," • he
said quietly ; then, without another look at
his opponent, he went to the dressing-room.

Gardner gave a sneering laugh as D'Alour
walked away.

" What did I tell you ? " he said, turning
to his friends. *' That French dude can box
all right, but when it comes to taking one of
my wallops, his chicken heart can't stand it ! "

His sycophantic friends hastened to agree
with him, but the instructor, himself an old
fighterr knew that it was not fear that had
stopped D'Alour going on with the fight.

I don't know what made that French guy
take it lying down," he said to himself, as he
put away the gloves ; ■' but, whatever it was, it
wasn't funk. One day those two are going
to meet again, and when it comes off my
money is going to be on the Frenchman ! "

The story of the spar got round the club,
and the general opinion among the real sports
was that, though Gardner had taken an
unfair advantage, D'Alour had shown the
white feather in not insisting on another round.

Throwing the Knife.

BUT something happened the next day
which made the members of the Potomac
Club forget all about the sparring bout.
Mr. Stoner's chief clerk was found murdered
in his office. The news was brought to Mr. Stoner
by Detective Monroe from the Central Station
as Stoner was sitting in the library of the
Potomac Club.

" The chief thinks there's something queer
about this murder," said the detective. " When
I got on the scene. I found that the door of
his office was locked on tho inside, yet your
clerk was stabbed in the back. We can't make

out how the murderor got in or got away.
Another thing that is puzzling us is tho motive.
Nothing has been taken frotn the rash bo <c
your clerk hud in his desk, and then has been
no attempt to break open tho safo."

Mr. Stoner looked thoughtful.

" I cun't offer any explanation, Mr. Monroe,"
lie said. " When I left the office an hour ago
my clerk was at his desk. So far as I know,
he had not an enemy in the world."

Mr. Stoner turned suddenly as Steven and
Alan Gardner came up.

" I see by your face that yon have heard
the news," he said. " This i3 Mr. Monroe, a
detective from the Central Oflico. His chief is
bafffed as to tho motive for the murder. Nothing
is missing from tho safe, and there is another
strange thing about the murder, according to
Mr. Monroe. The door of tho clerk's office
was locked on the inside, and the police can't
make out how the murderer got in."

" That's right," said Monroe crisply.

''The only thing I can think of as to tho
motive," said Mr. Stoner, " is that the murderer
was after those contracts of Gardner's. But
he could not have been very well informed, for
I happen to keep those contracts in my private
safo at home. What beats mo, though, is
how the murderer could have got inside an
office where the door was locked on the
inside — which, as you know, Steven, was one
of poor Granger's customs, so that he should
not be disturbed — and stabbed him in the
back."

" May 1 suggest an explanation ? "
The four men started at the sound of the
voice.

Henri D'Alour came up to them with a
pleasant smile on his handsome face.

" I could not help overhearing your con-
versation as I came into the library," ho said,
" and I have just been told about the deuth
of your clerk, Mr. Stoner. May I suggest that
it is not necessary for a man to get in a room
to stab another in the back, jhere is such a
thing as throwing a knife. 1 presume that,
the day being very warm, Mr. Granger would
have his office window open. See ! "

D'Alour took up a dagger that was lying
in front of Mr. Stoner. It was a curio one
of tho members had presented to the club.

The Frenchman balanced it on the palm of
his hand for a moment, and then fixed his eye
on the old-fashioned wooden fireplace of the
library.

'' 1 will throw t)iis knife so that it will stick
in the right-hand pillar of the fireplace,"
he said.

(Con'inued on page 8.)

GEORGES CARPENTIER as Henri D'Alour, and FAIRE BINNEY as Dorothy Stoner in the Ideal photo-play

THE WONDER MAN. (c^y7,{,om

With 8 swift jerk, he throw the knife, and
it stuck in the centre of the pillar.

" I agree that is a very good explanation of
the problem that has baffled my chief," said
Detective Monroe, looking fixedly at D'Alour.
" 1 will tell the chief of your demonstration,
Mr. "

" Monsieur Henri D'Alour," broke in Mr.
Si oner. "D'Alour is, in a way, my guest,
Mr. Monroe." »

" Pleased to .meet you," said the detective.

Henri D'Alour bowed politely. Then, turning
to Mr. Stoner, he said :

" Will you please excuse me, Mr. Stoner ?
I have an appointment."

With another bow to the others, he left
the library.

" I don't want to suggest anything, Mr.
Stoner," said Alan Gardner ; " but don't you
think that your friend, Mr. D'Alour, seems
very familiar with the methods of criminals,
not to say murderers ? "

" Guess you've just taken the words out of
mv mouth ! " broke in Monroe. " Who is he ? "

'' No one seems to know," answered Gardner,
with a shrug. " I've always said there was
something suspicious about him. No one knows
anything about him, except he has taken care
to get introduced to this club and has made
himself part icularly nice to the ladies. I shouldn't
be surprised if there was some motive behind
this ; girls talk, you know ! D'Alour must
have some business in this country, but no one
knows what it is. How do we know it is not
something connected with your contracts,
Mr. Stoner ? Remember how he has attached
himself to your daughter Dorothy."

" But why — why " stammered Mr. Stoner.

But Monroe broke in.

" Mr. Gardner is right, Mr. Stoner. This
young man must bo watched."

" But if he is guilty, why should he have
gone out of his way to show how the crime
was committed ! " exclaimed Mr. Stoner.

" If you were in my business, Mr. Stoner,"
6aid the detective quietly, " you would know
that ono of the strangest things about murder
crimes is that the murderer is often the very
man that comes fir3t to the police to report
the affair. I'm not a betting man, but I would
wager something that .D'Alour killed your
clerk. He's not an ordinary murderer, this
young friend of yours, and I'm all at sea as
to his motive ; but I'll stake my reputation as
a detective that D'Alour killed your clerk."
(To be concluded next week.)

FINDING FAULTS IN FILMS.

WHEN Alice Brady in " Redhead," looks
out of her window down on to Broad-
way there is no balcony, ana) tho
window is several storeys high ; but a few
minutos later a man is seen walking by the
window. Was ho walking on air ? — 5s.
Awarded to M. Coffin, 9, Maple Road, Bittcrno
Park, Southampton.

In " The Judgment " (Domino Film) it
says, " Ten years have passed." During this
period tho girl Mercy has aged at least 30
years, while her son, ono month old, has grown
up to be the chief magistrato of the island,
with two children of his own, about 10 and
14 years old ! — 5s. Awarded to Miss M.
Dolby, 91, Lathom Road, East Ham, E.6.

In tho "Iron Test," Antonio Moreno's 3eriai,
Red Mask, otherwise Lewis Craven, shot an
aoroplanist in his shoulder, and the aero-
pianist was limping after he had got up from
tho ground. — 5s. Awarded to S. Fleet, 225,
Burbuvy Street, Lozells, Birmingham.

In " Boundary House," tho photo-play in
which Alma Taylor' stars ..as Jonny Gay.
ulthough the' room downstairs wears an air of
absoluto poverty, and nearly everything has
been pawned, yet when Jenny enters her
bedroom this is most gorgeously furnished. —
6s. Awarded to Miss H. Appleyard, 57, Ainslic
Street, Grimsby, Lines,

Five Shillings will be awarded to the sender of every
"fault" published in the "Picture Show." If we
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Film Faults, "Picture Show," Gough House, Gough
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Future Show, November lZth, 1920.

OVE MAGGY," sequel
to " The Honeypot,"
by Countess Barcyn-
ska, has been filmed by the
Samuelson Film Company.

These novels aro tales of
the stage and " Love
Maggy " is the story of the
heroine's life after she is married to Lord
Chalfont.

Peggy Hyland is delightful as the warm-
hearted and impulsive Maggy, who leaves
her husband, whom she passionately loves,
because a man whom she has known in the
past comes into her life once more and
tries to blackmail her. Rather than any
trouble should come to her husband
through her, she leaves Chalfont Towers
and goes Lack to the stage. She is a
wonderful success, and one day her husband
goes to the theatre and sees her. He
takes her away from the stage lifo, and all
ends happily.

Some of the scenes for this film, which,
by the way, was produced by Mr. F. L,
Granville for the Samuolson Film Com.
pany, wore takou at the Holborn Empire-
London,

■KHH

' One of tbe scenes taken at the Holborn Empire. Peggy Hyland can be seen on tbe
stage. Above is a photograph of Miss Hyland with F. L. Granville, who takes a
part in tbe film as well as producing it. The photograph at the top of tbe page snow i
Sir. Granville as produce'.

Repose.

Picture Show, November lZth, 1920. 9
THE EXPRESSIONS OF LILLIAN GISH. (Exclusive to the "Picture She.:: )

LILLIAN GISH.

Tne Talented Screen Arttafte Witk tne Heart of a Cnilcl.

FROM the day that Lillian Gish, at the age of seven, played the part of
little Willie in " East Lynne," her career was decided. Lillian naturally
possesses a pathetic charm that is all her own, and the power to get
rigflt to the hearts of her audience. The culminating point of her success was
reached in her rendering of the gjrl in the now world-famous " Broken
Blossoms."

It was Mrs. Mary Gish, the mother of the two popular Gish girls, who
paved the way for her two daughters to become the popular successes they
are to-day.

When only twenty-three years of age, Mrs. Gish was left a widow with
two tiny girls to support.

Mary's Part in Her Life Story.

A FRIEND procured for Mrs. Gish a walking-on part at the local theatre.
In time she was advanced to better parts, and whilst touring round
with her two little girls, they made the acquaintance of Mary Pickford.
Mary was then herself playing child parts on the stage and Lillian and
Dorothy were adding to the family income by playing small parts, when
they were needed, in their mother's company.

Many children step from stage to the screen these days, but in the early
days of the films, it was not an easy matter. The two little girls lived for
sis 3-ears in third-rate hotels, and moved from town to town, with the
theatrical company without any hope of ever being anything more than
j ust a member of that third-rate company.

Her First Screen Success.

THEN one day they visited a picture show, and recognised in the star
no less a personage than the little girl with whom they had become
so friendly on a previous tour, Mary Pickford. They had appeared
together in one show, and the little girls had become very foSd of each other.

As soon as the company reached New York, the Gish girls called on their
old friend, whom they had known when she was playing under her real
name of Gladys Smith. Mary was genuinely glad to see them, and after
getting Lillian an engagement for a small role as a fairy in " A Good Little
Devil," in which Mary was playing an important part on the stage, she
gave them an introduction to the great D. W. Griffith, and then and there
he engaged Lillian to play a small part on the screen.

A Lover of Simplicity.

FROM that day to this, Lillian has made rapid strides in her screen successes.
Early plays in which you may remember her are, " The Battle of the
Sexes," " Home Sweet Home," then in "The Birth of a Nation," and
" Intolerance," in which she took the part of the woman who rocks the cradle,
" The Greater Love." Last but far from least is the part of the child in
" Broken Blossoms," which is well known to every reader of the Picture Show.

Lillian is just as simple in her tastes as in the characters she portrays so
well on the screen. She says she owes much of her success to the simplicity
of the frocks she wears. She is devoted to her library and her treasured
books ; she sings a little, and one of her greatest treasures is a little ballad
called " Broken Blossoms," presented to her by the author. She says she
finds genuine pleasure in singing it, and is delighted and proud that her
picture is printed on the front cover.

Must Learn How Not To Act.

LILLIAN has a very real admiration for D. W. Griffith, the world-famous
producer. She tells how Mr. Griffith trains all his players how not to
act. That is the very first thing on which he insists, 'she says.
" We must move through our parts just as we would in real life, there
must be no artificial expressions and no posing. Mr. Griffith teaches that
to express an emotion, you must feel it, then the expression will be real. He
is a dreamer who makes his dreams come true, and his ideals of truth and
beauty are contagious. It is more difficult not to understand him than it
is to understand him. His very simplicity of method and his quiet direction
make for complete harmony between his players and himself."

Delight.

LILLIAN
GISH.

So sad.

If you want to write to her, address
your letter :

LILLIAN GISH,
c o Griffith Studio,

Mamaroneek,

New York.

Her wistful smile.

A picture of charm.

Born to Serve.

PERHAPS that is why Lillian has made
such a wonderful cinema actress. She
loves to be dominated ; in fact,
obedience is the chief trait of her character.
Mrs. Gish says that both of her girls are
wonderfully good, but Dorothy is wilful, and likes her own way, wliilc Lillian can
always be relied upon to do just what she is told. Lillian believes that some people
are born to rule and some to serve, and she places herself among those who serve.

Her Ambition.

IT is difficult to get Lillian to talk about herself. By way of greeting she will ask
you if you have seen Dorothy in her latest picture. It is her ambition to see
London, and as her friend Norma Talmadge told me, she was more than
disappointed that she was unable to accompany her mother and Dorothy on their
visit to Europe. However, she has promised herself a real holiday soon, during
which she has planned a tour of Great Britain. So we may soon see her over here,

Picture

FLICKE]

NEWS, NOTES, AND OPINIONS BY FRED K. ADAMS.

The Jack London Films.

IT seems that a good deal of surprise -was
expressed in the motion picture
t>tudios when Edward Sloman wa's
selected to produce the Jack London
pictures, which Metro are filming. How
could a native of Great Britain, a product
of her most modem cities, know of the
primitive conditions of the Great West ?
In reply to Iris critics Edward Sloman
said, " They forget that in England we
have ' penny dreadfuls ' which have a
great vogue. Buffalo Bill, to me, was a
greater divinity than he ever seemed to
the young people of America.' When I
grew older I turned to weightier books,
but a good many of them were about life in
ths Wild West." Thus Mr. Sloman
absorbed the customs and traditions of
the West. As for the sea, Mr. Sloman
explains that an Englishman is born with
the love of it in him, with the thunder of
it ringing in his ears, and with glorious
traditions of his sailoring forbears con-
stantly set before him. With this in mind
he tackled Jack London without the
slightest misgivings, and that he took
the right step is proved by his successful
productions, " Burning Daylight, " and
The Mutiny of Elsinore."

The Star System.

DISCUSSION has again arisen over
the various merits and demerits of
what is known as the " Star "
system in films. Some critics make bold
to say that film stars will pass into oblivion,
while others are of the opinion that stars

B. A. PRAGER, President of the
Mayflower Photo-play Corporation.

are an indispensable fixture of the screen
industry. Kobcrt Bruuton, of the Brun-
ton Studios, is at present making n test
of the star system. 'I ho contract of his
latest star, J. Warren Kerrigan, bus just
been completed, and he is now producing n
series of nil-star features. Here are a few
of Mr. Brunton's remarks on the topic :

" There will always bo stars. The most
short-sighted producer cannot but sec the
certainty of that. To eliminate theso
darlings of the public it would l>e necessary
to suppress personality, beauty, and
talent itself. Once a player attracts
fctrong popular favour, it follows inevitably

that he or she be featured until the tide of
favouritism turns. In every city and
community of this nation there is some
figure that dominates, someone who stands
pre-eminent by reason of superior talents
or unceasing effort.

" By the same token, certain actors,
being " better equipped for their line -of
work than ethers, and more earnest in the
pursuance of it, are bound to tip the
scales of popularity and attain recognition
as stars."

In Mr. Brunton"s opinion, authors them-
selves make the star indispensable.
Every well-written play has a dominant
figure, -someone who succeeds in reaching
an objective against the will of another.
The person taking this part, naturally
carries the sympathy of the audience, and
receives the applause. It would be a
trying and almost impossible task to
reduce every role in a play to an equal
basis. Some character must prevail, that
is a primary rule of drama.

The Public Make Stars.

MR. BRUNTON firmly believes that
the public will always demand
stars. " People delight in accord-
ing recognition to individual worth," he
says. '* If Bill Henry does some par-
ticularly striking work in an obscure role
the barometer of public favour will
assuredly push him upward. Should he
display star qualities, star he will become.
There is an erroneous belief to the point
that producers 'make' stars. No greater
fallacy exists. The public in their own
attainments make them. Producers
merely gauge the most propitious moment
to -launch a climbing actor with star credit.
One fact alone is sufficient to preserve the
star-system — it is a commercial success.
A production bolstered with the reputa-
tion of an established star rarely fails, even
though the- scenario be bad and the
direction worse. On the other hand,
the so-called star feature is a hazard :
it requires infinite care and expense.
It may bring a fortune, and it may
fail entirely." Mr. Brunton sums up
by stating that the public has
awakened to keener judgment, and
stars will undoubtedly be forced to
produce a higher grade of work ; but
it is a mistake to predict their extinc-
tion altogether.

" The Elusive Pimpernel."

IN Baroness Ore/y's romance, " The
Elusive Pimpernel," the house of
Sir Percy Blakeney is supposed
to lie a beautiful old mansion
Richmond. In the Stoll screen version
of this story the building that does
duly for this house is really Richmond
Old Palace. The gardens surrounding
the palace, however, were not considered
by Maurice Elvey, the producer, to be orna-
mental enough to figure as the gardens
surrounding Sir Percy's mansion, so all the
garden scenes of the photo-play were taken
in the beautiful grounds of General Sir
Arthur Paget's place at Kingston.

"The palace grounds," .Mr. 101 voy says,
" are rather Tudor in style, whereas
General Sir Arthur Paget's grounds are
nil marble and stone, and exactly in keep-
ing with the book."

Lessons We Learn From the
Films.

It is btllfr to be proud of your children
than of yuur ancestors.

« « •

All men want to be heroes, and all women
Utant to be martyrs.

* ♦ •

Peal fame is to be discussed by strangers
in a railo ay carriage.

AT HOME

EOBGB BEBAN is always
ll Blatl when Sundays come •'•^•1
round, for Sundays in the
Bebau household arc delightful (lays of rest,
when all the hard work of the cinema studio is
forgottcu.

He then lias time to enjoy his home in beau-
tiful Hollywood, and spend a lot of time with
George licbau, juur., who is nicknamed " Bob
White."

Picture Show Art Supplement, .Xocember 13th, 1920.

There was nearly a tragedy in the Beban home ! George attempted
to cook the Sunday dinner, and Mrs. Beban saved the situation only
lust in time. Mrs. Beban bad not much faith in her husband as a cbel.

{Photos; J. C. Milliuan.)

"THE LUCKIEST GIRL IN LONDON.'

INTERVIEW WITH JOAN MORGAN.

The Romance of Joan Morgan.

AT tho tender age of eight years
Joan Morgan made her screen debut.
To-day, at tho age of fifteen, she is
Bryant Washburn's leading lady. Who
said romance was dead ?

But to get down to brass tacks.
Little Miss Morgari, as I have just
remarked, first east the shadow of her
elfin personality upon the screen at eight
years old, an age when most of us aro still
struggling with the mysteries of tho multi-
plication table and fighting for the acqui-
sition of somebody else's marbles. But
Joan was different. How different you may
guess when I tell you that not only did she
appear in a film, but starred in it — right
away ! The film was called " The World's
Desire " — a B. and C. production — and no
less a celebrity than Lillian Braithwaito had
a subsidiary part in it ! That of Joan's
" mother." For Joan herself the principal
role was written, and it was Joan who
raced away with the chief honours.

Not content with one success, the youth-
ful actress speedily followed it up with
two others — Queenie of the Circus," a
Motograph picture, in which she appeared
with Elizabeth Risdon and Fred Groves,
and " The Woman Who Did," the first
film the Broadwest Company produced.
She was then nine years old.

Temperament at Ten,

rE interest now switches to the States,
whither, in 1915, when she was
nearly ten, Miss Morgan journeyed
to appear in American pictures. During her
stay there she played in two Brady pro-
ductions— one being " The Reapers," in
which she appeared with John Mason —
and then (such are the terrors of the
artistic temperament at ten !) she became
very homesick, and returned to the Old
Country in 1916. Shortly afterwards she
appeared in the Ideal picture featuring
Ellen Terry, " Her Greatest Perform-
ance."

On the Stage.

BUT Joan was not a film actress
exclusively. That is, she had
talents which could be used to
great advantage on the stage. She
could dance, she could sing, she was
very musical. Her next move was the
embarkation of a theatrical career.
Accordingly she went to Mr. Audio
Chariot — and stayed. She was with
the famous producer for two years,
appearing in such successes as " Tho
Pierrot's Christmas " at the Apollo,
and " See-Saw " and " Bubbly" at the
Comedy, and then, upon his good
advice, left the stage.

" Wait till you are sixteen or so,
and then — come back," he told her.
" Preserve your voice and abilities,
1 i ( lie girl, and don't wear yourself out
using them too much while you are so
young."

And being a wise little girl, Joan obeyed
Back to the Screen.

NOW thirteen years old, she returned
to the screen, where she appeared
with George Foley and Fred Groves
in the Gaumont production of " Drink."
She did not, however, neglect her musical
and dancing studies, but contented her-
self with making just this one picture in a
year, giving the rest of her time to them
and her general development.

Fourteen saw her as " Lady Xoggs "
(although we have still that pleasure to
come), a Progress film, directed by her
well-known father, Sidney Morgan. Fifteen
(her present age) finds her the heroino of
" Little Dorrit " and " Two Little Wooden
Shoes," — also directed by her father for
the same company— and (it's a big " and ')
Bryant Washburn's leading lady 1

The Great Discovery.

IT was at tho trade show of " Little Dorrit"
that the big discovery was made. AS
you know, shortly after his arrival in
England, Mr. Washburn announced his
intention of finding a British girl for his
leading lady in the picture he intended
producing over here, " Tho Road to
London." But, alas ! suitablo leading
ladies do not grow as freely as tho flowers
in spring. Bryant and his adviser were
beginning to feel that their desperate
search might provo fruitless.

And then Mr. Washburn saw Joan.
He didn't know he was going to see her
when he visited the trade show of " Little
Dorrit" — he had been attending trade shows
for weeks without avail, and went to this
one just on the chanco that here he might
find the girl he wanted. And he found
her. Immediately the show was over Joan
and her mother received word from Mr.
Washburn's agent requesting an interview
with the youthful actress. When the agent
saw her he was amazed (as everyone would
be) to find her so young, in view of her
finished performance ; moreover, he was
distinctly impressed. With the glad know-
ledge of this impression Joan left him, only
to receive a wire two days later saying that
Mr. Washburn was very keen to see her
with her hair up and dressed in grown-up
clothes, and that he would like to have a
test made of her under these conditions.

Accordingly Joan piled her beautiful
blonde hair on the top of her head and
attired her little self in a really-truly
grown-up frock and presented herself
before the camera that was to decide her
fate. And then came some anxious hours
of waiting, but they were only hours, for

JOAN MORGAN.

(Pholo: Claude Harris.)

almost immediately arrived the wire bear-
ing the magic word : " Fixed." Bryant
Washburn's leading lady had been found !

" When I received that wire I felt I was
the luckiest girl in London," Joan said to
me the other afternoon, when she was telling
me all about her good fort une. " I ran round
to all my friends near by to tell them the
great news. I never " — here her grey eyes
sparkled — " felt so excited in my life. I
admire Mr. Washburn so much ; and to be

his leading lady — well / " Plainly Joan

thought it was almost too good to be true.

May Herschel Clarke.

Pichtrc Show, November lZth, 1920.

CONCLUSION OF THIS SPLENDID SERIAL STORY.

Billy O'Farrel's Triumph.

WHEN John Galloway appeared for the
second time in the little stuffy police,
court at Marlingham on the adjourned
hearing of the murder charge, he was hoping for
the best but expecting the worst.

Ho had no great faith in his solicitor, Ransom,
whom he had not seen for several days. The man
was too clever, and at their last interview it had
lieen only too evident that he believed his client
guilty, although he courteously pretended not to.

John had no sooner taken hia place in the
railed dock than somebody struggled through
the well of the court, upsetting a solicitor's chair
and making a general disturbance.

The next moment John found himself shaking
hands wildly with Billy O'Farrel. A uniformed
constable acting the part of usher darted forward
with the obvious intention of removing Billy at
all costs ; but Billy resisted quietly and firmly.

" John," he said, in his out-door voice, which
was loud enough to be heard plainly by the
magistrate who had just taken his seat, " this
is all fudge. I've ordered lunch at the Red Cow
for both of us, and we'll talk things over together.
I've got a number of things to say. You're
innocent of the death of poor old Mallet, and I'm
here to tell them so."

" And I'm glad to see J'ou, Billy," returned
Galloway, smiling in spite of his position. " I
only hope they'll believe you, but I'm afraid
they won't."

" In ten minutes, my son, you'll be a free
man," said Billy. " I'm here with the goods.
Watch me."

Billy was almost as good as his word. In less
than half an hour Galloway was fully acquitted
and left the dock.

Jack Belcher took his place, and on his own
confession was duly committed for trial on a
c harge of manslaughter.

The two partners lunched at the Red Cow at
the appointed time, and Billy O'Farrel made a
great business of talking without saying any-
thing in particular.

He was consumed with curiosity to know
why his friend had played the strange part whic h
had eventually landed him in goal. He con-
sidered John the !a=!t man in tho world to lend
himself to such a doubtful business, and gener-
ously put it down to mental disturbance conse-
quent on the shock of the wreck.

It was obvious to him that John was very
far from Ins usual self. He asked no questions.
•Seemed to have no interest in the progress of
things at tho Calamity Jane, and took it for
granted that Billy had thrown up tho sponge
as he and Mallet had done.

Billy did not undeceive him, and in fact
studiously avoided the Calamity Jane as a
subject of conversation. But John's settled
aspect of gloom was too obvious to be passed
u ithout comment.

" For a man who has just escaped tho atten-
tions of the public executioner by the skin of
his teeth," said Billy, " I think you are the
most dismal proposition ever. 1 have just
dragged you from the edge of the nether pit,
and I think a small show of decent gratitude
would bo usual."

" I'm sorry. Billy." said John gripping his
friend's hand across the table. " I am grateful,
and you know I am. Forgivo me if I don't
show my fee lings as 1 should."

"You're showing your feelings all right,"
returned Billy. " But oh the surface they are
tho feelings of a man who, on the whole, would
have preferred to be hanged."
John smiled grimly.

"You do me less than justice, Billy. I am
grateful. I am glad to be out of prison. I was
not at all in love with the idea of being hanged.
As for you — you aro a wonder. How did you
find that man Belcher ? "

" I didn't find him," said Billy. " I found a
woman — that is, a girl. A rather pretty girl ;
and I had a talk with her."

John started slightly, and Billy, who was
watching him keenly without appearing to- do
so, did not fail to notice it.

Galloway's eyo3 flashed. His wearied air dis-
appeared. As Billy expressed it, lie began to
sit up and take notice.

" Who was this girl you spoke to ? " he asked.

" Her name is Alice Mercer," said Billy.
" When the case against Belcher goes on to the
next stage she will be called as a witness, and
j our humhle servant also, I suppose.

" He will get off with a few months' imprison-
ment, I expect. Perhaps with nothing at all.
I ha%'e it on good authority that the medical
evidence will go to show that Mallet's heart was
in a rotten condition, and that his death was, in
in all probability, due to the excitement caused
by his scrap with Belcher rather thau from any
injuries received.

"As for the girl— rJ met her in the Brandon
Woods. She was sitting under a tree crying
pretty badly when I blundered upon her, and
she just told me the whole story with hardly
any persuasion."

But by this time Galloway did not seem to be
listening at all. He had relapsed into his old
condition of listlessness, and was looking moodily
out of the window at the white road which, as he
knew, led eight miles farther on past Athalie
Railton's house, and farther still past the little
lane which meandered into Portallock Bay.

"Hum!" said Billy O'Farrel to himself,
" there's a woman in this, and the woman is not
pretty Alice Mercer. Now I wonder who this
woman is, and how much she had to do with
old John's departure from the paths of righteous-
ness and grace."

For the present moment Billy gave it up.
There were other pressing matters which he had
shelved in order to help his old friend and
partner, but which must be attended to without
further loss of time.

" Well," he said, expanding his big chest, " I
have to go to London, and there I shall bo busy
for two days, perhaps three. I give you those
two or three days to yourself. After that I
have matters of moment on which I want to see
you. Have you a programme ? What do you
propose to do with yourself ? "

John shrugged his shoulders expressively.

" I have nothing to do, Billy. 1 have had my
little fling, and thanks to you I haven't had to
foot the bill in the ordinary way."

"Oh! I think you're footing it all right!"
muttered Billy.

" Perhaps I am," returned John with a sudden
tightening of the lips.

"Well, son." Billy cut in eagerly, "don't
think too much of it. It was only a frolic, after
all, and there's no harm come of it. Rather
comic interlude, in fact, and in your place I don't
know that I shouldn't have done just the same
thing. Anyway, what's the next move for you?"

John shrugged his shoulders again.

" I suppose it's to look for a job. I must got
some sort of work to live."

" Well, there's no hurry about that. Rest up
for a bit until I sec- you attain. Why not stop
here J It',s a pretty placo."

"No," returned John quickly. "Anywhere
but here. I must get to'London. Besides, I can't
stay here. I've nothing to pay my^way with."

Come to London with me, then," said Billy.
" I've got a room at the Majestic, and there's an
extra bed. You can roll in luxury as my guest.
They do you very well at the Majestic."

But whence all this wealth, Billy ? I've
never known you to l>e wallowing in riches
before. Has anything happened ?

"It's a secret," said Billy mysteriously.
" I've got an aunl."

" Has she died ? "

" Oh, no, she's very much alive ! Never
knew, in fact, that she had any money until
recently. She's a surprise packet. Jane her
name is, and she's a good sort. She's handed
me out a bit unexpectedly. But, mind you, I
deserve it. I've worked for her — toiled for her.
I've sweated blood for her when it never looked
as if I should get a penny in return. Now she's
repaying me like a lady."

" Good luck to her," said John without
enthusiasm. " You deserve to have a good and
wealthy aunt, Billy. I'll Be your guest at Aunt
Jane's expense for a few days until I havo
found a job."

Portallock Bay and the Magic of Aunt
Jane.

JOHN found that he had the run of the
Majestic at his friend's expense, but never
felt less inclined to enjoy its amenities.
Billy had not only a bedroom but a private
sitting-room and bathroom — riotous luxury to a
man t.ho had lived in a hole in the ground, and
taken his occasional bath in a petrol tin with the
side cut out — water at the Calamity Jane being
a precious commodity.

He saw very little of Billy. He was out early
in the morning and returned late at night, with a
wearied air and a disinclination to talk. Thit
went on for four days, and still Billy seemed as
busy as ever.

When John asked what it was all about, lie
murmured vague things about his Aunt Jane,
and Oa'l°way presumed that he was working
for her.

These were bad days for John.

At first there had been a wild hope that there
might be a letter from Athalie in reply to th'o one
which he had sent her, and which she had never
received. If only she would send her forgive-
ness ! — he asked for nothing more. Then ho
would get up and face the world again, and try
to take an interest in the business of living.

He had taken precautions to ensure that 9he
would have ho difficulty in finding where to
write to him. The police of Marlingham knew
where he was ; also Mr. Ransom, the solicitor.
He had been told that he would be wanted to
give evidence at the adjourned hearing of the
ease against Belcher. Further, he had written
to Mrs. Weston, the housekeeper at Mallet's
house, whom ho knew could \ye trusted to spread
the news locally of his whereabouts.

But no letter came, and at length he was
forced to realise that he had never expected one.

What girl, however queenly in her generosity,
could be expected to forgive his elaborate and
sustained scheme of lying and deception ?

Perhaps it was for the best.

Kven if, in her angelic charity, she had for-
given him, he would never dare to see her again
— and he knew that in every fibre of his man-
hood he was burning to see her.

But it would not do. ■

If he saw her, he would have to tell her the
stark truth — that it was his love for her, and
nothing else, which had made him play this
mad game of sorry deception. He had sold out
his honour like a lunatic, and her love was tho
price he had sold for.

And how should he, a penniless vagrant, dare
to tell her this ?

Supposing, by some scarce, imaginable miracle,
she still loved him. Matters would l>c far and
away worse than they were now. Sho was tho
daughter of a rich man : nnd ho was worth —
well, he was not worth the clothes he stood in,
because they had come out of Billy O'Farrel's
trunk.

So the only thing to do was to try to forget
her, and to hope that she would not havo too
much difficulty in 'doing t he same.

(Continued on page 18.)

ricturc Show, Xonmbtr lZth, 1920.

EILEEN SEDGWICK

miiiir"ii»*w"

THE UNIVERSAL SERIAL STAR.

EILEEN SEDGWICK, the Universal star, whom
you have probably seen on the screen with
Eddie Polo in " The Circus Kins," and tho
" Cyclone Smith " series, was born in Texas.

She commenced her career -on tho stage while
still a child. She must have been a clover little
actress even in those days, for she appeared in
drama, and musical comedy, and these are so
different from one another that it calls for great
versatility to appear in both successfully.

Contrasts.

EILEEN is three inches over five feet in
height, and has dark blue eyes and curly
fair hair.

By the way, have you noticed that Eddie Polo
nearly always acts with fair girls. He says, this
is because he is so dark himself, and ho must
havo a contrast.

A Thrilling Serial.

VERY thrilling serial, in which Eileen
Sedgwick appears, is " The Great Radium
Mystery." You must not miss this when
it is released to tho public. Somo of tho scenes
from this film are shown on this page.

Other films in which you will bo ablo to see
Eileen are " Man and Beast." " Dropped From tho
Clouds," "Trail of No Return," and " No. 10 —

West Bound."

Picture Sltoic, November 13th, 1920.

"The Price tf5 Honour.

(Continued from
page 16)

But when he thought of Portallock Bay, and
ah the bewildering sweetness and serious charm
of her — they were black times, and he wished
that he had never survived the wreck of the
Sweet Alice.

On the fourth morning Billy O'Farrel was as
grave as an owl over breakfast. When the meal
waa finished, he spoke with awful solemnity.

" I want you to stop here this morning," said
Billy. " I'm coming back before twelve o'clock,
and I shall have some papers, important papers,
for you to sign."

" For me to sign ? But what the deuce have
I got to do with your papers '! "

°' You've got nothing to do with them except
to sign them. Yours not to reason why ; yours
but to do as you're told. These are matters of
import, I tell you. Stir not out of this room at
your peril. You must be here when I come
back if the roof falls in. Do you get me t "

" But these papers ! What are they ? Are
they anything to do with your Aunt Jane ? "
''They are."

" Oh, very well ! I'll wait here until you
come back, and sign whatever you ask me."

" Good lad ! " returned Billy. " And, by the
way, I've got to apologise to you humbly.
I'm a forgetful beggar."

He drew from his pocket a dirty and crumpled
envelope.

" This is for you," he went on. " I've been
carrying it about with me for days, and have mis-
remembered it, until I got up this morning." -

John took the rumpled envelope, and for some
occult reason an electric thrill ran through him.
It was addressed to John Galloway, Esq., at
Mallet's house.

" Where did you get this ? " he asked, a little
unsteadily.

" Given to me, my son, by a Mrs. Weston,
your late housekeeper."

" When ! " demanded Galloway. r

" Let me see. The day I went to Marlingham.
That was the day before I walked you out of the
police court. I ought not to have forgotten it,
because the old soul was rather worried. You
see, she said that-this letter came by post on the
very morning of the discovery of poor old
Mallet's death.

" For some reason or other she forgot to give
it to- the police on the day of its arrival. Later,
Bhe found that you were John Galloway, and she
continued to keep it from the police from a sense
of loyalty to jou I suppose. Then when I
turned up and told her that I was your friend,
she gave it to me. Sorry I've made a mess of it.
1 hope it's nothing important."

" But don't you see," said John, with a strange
look in his eyes, " this letter must have been
written the d;iy before the discovery of Mallet's
death, and at that time nobody knew I was
John Galloway ! "

" Perhaps it's from Mallet." answered
O'Farrel. " He knew. Anyway, I can t stop."

He disappeared at a run.

Conscious that his hands were shaking and
that his breath was coming uneasily, John
opened the letter. This is what he read :

" John, my very dearest. I said I would be
in bed saying good-night to you by half-past
nine. I think I can just do it, but 1 want
to send this letter out first.

"This has been the mo3t perfect day I have
ever had. Whatever may happen to either of
u» in the future, I shall never forget our picnic
in Portallock Bay. 1 hope you will not forget
it, sir. You have been very sweet to me, John.

" Will you promise me this one, thing ! If in
the future there should come, as come there may,
any cloud between us two, will you think of this
rather ordinary girl of yours as you thought of
her to-day, when we joined hands over the
Wishing Stone, and when she wished you all the
good that heaven can give you 1 Good-night.

" Athalie."

Galloway stood breathing hard, with a face as
white as the paper in his hand.

What did it mean ?

This letter was written on the night of their
pienio in Portallock Bay.

It was written and posted only a few minutes
after they parted, after he had held her in his
arms and kissed her at the gate of her garden.

Yet she, who knew him only as Dyson Mallet,
and who had quaintly insisted all day on calling
him Mr. Mallet, called him John in hor letter ;
and the envelope was addressed in her writing
to John Galloway.

It meant that she knew all the time.

He grabbed his hat and made a bolt for the
door. Duty pulled him up, and he remembered
his promise to O'Farrel to remain in to sign
mysterious papers for him. *

Hang Billy O'Farrel and his Aunt Jane ! He
scribbled a note for Billy, and rushed from the
room.

He dashed acros3 London by taxi, and caught
a train to Marlingham. He borrowed a bicycle
there, and was enquiring at the house of the
Railtons' in short time.

Athalie had gone out on b*r bicycle. She
had not stated where she was going, but she had
ridden in the opposite direction to Marlingham.

An inspiration came to Galloway, and he set
oft at reckless speed, bearing straight for Port-
allock Bay.

By the Wishing Stone.

HE found her sitting on the broad Wishing
Stone, a solitary, rather pathetic little
figure.

She was looking out to sea, and the tide was
coming in. The waves were breaking only a few
yards from her feet, and, owing to their uproar,
she did not hear his quiet approach.
Not until he spoke her name.
Then she turned like a flash and saw him ;
and he saw the light come into her eyes that
comes to a woman only for one man in a lifetime.

The next moment they were in each other's
arms, and he was holding her tight and hungrily
to his breast, although through the whole
journey he had been telling himself grimly that
this was the one thing which must not happen.

He sat down on the wave-worn Wishing Stone
and drew her on his knee, secretly amazed at
the lightness and girlish slenderness of her, and
more than half afraid of hurting her with hi3
unaccustomed handling.

Ho need not have been. Athalie found his
gentleness a most exquisite thing.

" Oh, my dear ! " she murmured. " What a
time I've had ! Why havo you been 30 long
coining ? I was beginning to think that — that
after all, you were not the sort of man which
I knew you were. That's rather Irish, isn't it,
but it exactly expresses what I mean."

" I only had j our letter about three hours ago
in London, Athalie," said John. " The letter
which you wrote to me on the night of our picnic
in this never-to-be-forgotten bay."

" Oh ! " She stared at him with wide eyes
still tear-wet, but without making the least
attempt to draw away from him. " Then you
would not have come but for that letter, sir ? "

" How could I come, Athalie ? " John wa3 a
little hoarse. The stern resolutions of the
journey down were making themselves heard in
his mind. " I was an impostor, and I had
played you the worst trick that n man could
play on a woman. I had no reason to suppose
that you would ever speak to mo again, much
le3s forgive me."

'* After all," she said, " you were not playing
a trick on me any more than I was on yoit.
Because on the day of our picnic — our wonderful
picnic, I knew your real name, sir, and all about
you ; every bit. The night before our picnic a
girl camo to me. Her name was Irma Gale, and
she told me overything. To prove her state-
ments she gave me a letter which she had stolen
from your house — a letter which you had
written to your friend Billy O'Farrel.

" Do you know, I had always rather hated
the idea that I had fallen in love -with Dyson
Mallet ; and when I found that you were nofc
Dyson Mallet I was just glad, and that's all I
can toll you about it.

" Do you think T found it very difficult to over-
ook your deception, when I found from that
etter'to Billv O'Farrel that it was all for mv

sake t I am afraid thi^ is a rather frail and human
sort of girl you are going to marry, John."

The word brought him out of his dreams with
a start. He stood away from her abruptly.

' This is all wrong," he said. ' 1 think I
must be mad. I have no right to be here — no
right to speak of love to you."

But she was not to be frightened now. She
knew her power, and only looked at him with
mild astonishment.

" What is the matter now, sir ? " she asked.
" What right have I to speak of lov/s to you
when I cannot ask you to marry me ? "

" Why not 1 John, you are not going to dis-
appoint me ? It seems to me you have, asked
me."

Very obviously she was laughing at him.
" Look here, Athalie," he said. You love

me ? "

" Heaps and heaps ! " she murmured.

" Will you wait for me ? "

" How long ? " she asked anxiously.

" Heaven ltnows ! But I have never loved a
woman before, and there will never be anyone
else in my life but you. But I am penniless."

" Do we want very much to get married on ? '
she asked, wrinkling her sweet brow3. " Because
I am rather well off myself."

" But don't you see, dear, that's impossible ! "

" No, I don't," she said.

They were interrupted by a distant halloe>,
and saw a man emerging from a car on the
distant road. He came running towards them
waving his hand. It was Billy O'Farrel.

He was introduced to Athalie, and with one
smile she made him her slave for life.

" Phew ! " he said, mopping his wet brow.
" I am glad I have found you, my dear. You
must let me call you ' my dear.' I am an old
man. I suspected your existence, but I cou'd
not get my hand on you."

He tufned to John.

" You left me in the lurch," he said, with a
twinkle. " But I'm not grumbling. These
papers have got to be signecito-day, and I just
bad to pursue you in a motor-car."

" Good Lord ! " gasped John. " Are your
Aunt Jane's papers so important as that ?

" Just that. ! " returned Billy. " You see,
my Aunt'.Tane's full name is the Calamity Jane,
and I am here to say that I have been deceiving
you with malico. I did not leave the Calamity
Jano because I had got cold feet, like the rest of
you, but because I struck oil — I mean gold, in
paying streaks. To-day I have sold out our old
claim for one hundred and fifty thousand
pounds. How does that sound to you t Poor
old Mallet's share automatically disappears with
his death, but I have made over ten thousand
pounds to the girl Alice Mercer. By a simple
process of arithmetic that leaves seventy thou-
sand pounds for each of us. Sign here, please ! "

And Billy produced a fountaiu-pen like a
cavalier drawing a sword.

Athalie was the first to recover.

She put her arms round Billy's neck and
kissed him.

" Billy O'Farrel, you're a darling ! " she said.

A quick look flashed between the lovers,
and they walked away together arm in arm.

Billy sat on the Wishing Stone watching thein.

Ho "was thinking of the look he had seen in
Athalie's eyes when she walked away with his
handsome paitner.

He filled his old. worn briar pipe thoughtfully,
stubbing down tho tobacco with his toil-worn
fingers.

" I reckon T'd give my seventy thousand
cheerfully to be fifteen years younger, and have
a girl like her look at me that way ! " he mur-
nuired. Tin: KN'l).

" MANACLED BY MONEY."

Splendid New Serial Coming Shortly.

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The Jolly COLOURED Picture Paper,

rictu/i Show, Xov.mbir llth, 1920.

CONCLUSION OF THIS LIFE STORY.

TEfes thpee;

IIIIIUIIItDIIIIIIIIIIIQIIIIIIIIIilllGlliHIiili'niQiililillllMiiQIIIIIIIIIIIiiiai

EXCLUSIVE TO THE " PICTURE SHOW. "

T?OR the first time the romantic life story of Norma,
A Natalie, and Constance Talmadge has been
written, and has appeared exclusively in the " Picture
Show." The early struggles oi these girls, before
they were stars, make most fascinating readinji^especially as

Natalie

onstaji<3& they have recently visited Great Britain.

THE EDITOR.

BOTH Norma and Constanco Talmadge now
have their own studios and their own com-
panies. They produce their own pic-
tures, and the amount of money each earns in a
month is about equal to the annual income of a
• Prime Minister.

In spite of this they remain just two simple,
natural, unaffected girls. When you meet them
in private life the first thing that strikes you is
that they do not belong to the actress type.
They dress well but not conspicuously. Norma
is short, but perfectly proportioned. Constance
is tall and slim. Both are very pretty — prettier
than on the screen — but there is nothing of the
professional beauty about either of them.

They are young and eager, and in love with
life. They delight in having a good time, but
their work is never long absent from their minds,
and thus they escape that boredom which often
comes to young people who have too much money
to spend.

They have recently been on holiday in Europe,
and they have enjoyed themselves immensely.
They liked Paris, were impressed by Rome, and
thiy adored Venice.

In talking to Constance you get the idea that
to her life is a great and glorious joke.

She has been called Tomboy Talmadge, and
the appelation fits her tolerably well. She is
just the healthy type of young American girl
bubbling over with life and high spirits. She
has a habit of saying the first thing that comes
into her mind, with the result that after every
other remark she makes she will add " Don't
print that ! " accompanying the warning with a
look of comical dismay.

Everyone who knows her loves her, and her
great screen rival Dorothy Gish is her bosom
friend in "private life.

Constance is fond of her work, but she con-
fesses that she has a secret ambition to appear
on the speaking stage in a good comedy part.

" I should love to be face to face with my
audience," she admits.

She might easily gratify this ambition if she
chose, for many managers have made her flatter-
ing offers to appear on the regular stage. But
her popularity on the screen is so enormous and
sj world-wide that for some time, at any rate,
the cinema is likely to retain its hold upon
her services.

She takes a girlish delight in relating some of
her queer experiences as a film actress.

A little while back D. W. Griffith — for whom,
by the way, she has an enormous admiration —
reconstructed the Babylonian story of " Intoler-
ance." A number of new scenes wero added,
for which Miss Talmadge again donned her
mountain girl garb.

" It was good fun," she says, " resuming the
famous character which gave me my start, but I
discovered that I had grown considerably
t liimer, and where these new scenes are spliced
in among the old ones, if you look closer you can
see that I gain or lose ten or fifteen pounds in a
second without any apparent discomfort. But
seeing the revised story did relieve my mind. I
had been afraid I was getting old. But my
wrinkles don't register on the celluloid yet ! "

When one is twenty even if you are a film star
you can afford to jest at getting old !

Apart from their screen work, the two sisters
devote a good deal of time to the acquirement of
new accomplishments, and latterly they have
taken up classic and Russian dancing.

You should see me doing the classic stuff,"
says Constance with a delightful gurgle. " Adolf
Bolm, who is teaching us, just looks at me, rolls
his eyes in anguish, and keeps saying the same
word in Russian over and over. Norma says it
means ' No, no, NO ! ' but I suspect it is some-
thing a good deal stronger."

Constance laughingly denies all reports and
rumours of her various marriages.

'' I have been married to everybody on the
coast. Of course there isn't a word of truth
in any of the stories. I am not in love with any-
body. I like men — they're nice to have around :
but I'm not going to get married for years and
years and >ears. There's something to be said
for marriage — quite a lot— but, oh ! I do love
independence ! "

But though so light-hearted and even torn-
boyish, Constance Talinadge is a very conscien-
tious and serious young artiste in everything that
pertains to her work. She takes a great deal of
trouble in selecting her stories, and this indeed is
one of the most difficult of her tasks. Every one
knows and enjoys a Constance Talmadge comedy.
It has a flavour of its own, but it is difficult to say
off-hand wherein lies its peculiar charm.

" Although some sixty manuscripts are sub-
mitted to me every week," said Miss Talmadge
recently, " it is exceedingly difficult to get
exactly the kind of comedy I want. I want
comedies of maimers, comedies that are funny
because they delight one's sense of what is ridi-
culously human in the way of little every-day
common-place foibles and frailties — subtle come-
dies, not comedies of the knock-about variety.

ALMADGE SISTERS

•, -9.H" » iS, . • a IMSim ■■»" fc)i'-iiiiMifcJiinii«&

up her swimming and riding, partly for healthy
exercise and partly to perfect herself in theso
accomplishments for her screen work.

She dislikes anything " faked " in pictures
and is opposed to the use of a " doublo in any
of her productions. In " By Right of Con-
quest," one of her most popular films, the story
has to do with a fire on a ship at sea, and she is
supposed to swim in the perilous ocean to a
desert island.

It was suggested that a professional swimmer
could be vised in this scene, and with her cap
pulled down over her eyes, and only the head
bobbing up and down at intervals in the splash-
ing surf, no one would know that another
person had been substituted for Miss Talmadge.
But Norma would not have it so ; she insisted
upon doing her own swimming, and took a
whole company to Florida for three or four
days to take these scenes.

This conscientiousness is one of the chief
elements of her success. She is always thinking
how she may make her pictures better, and
everything she sees or hears at once becomes
possible material for her work.

She is a great student of the fashions in
women's dress as well as the costumes of
many periods.

She is one of the very best dressed women in
the pictures, and she has achieved this reputa-
tion by constant study. It is"only a detail of
(Continued on page 20. >

A Question of Art.

" I WANT comedies," she went on to say,

1 " chiefly because I enjoy making people
laugh ; secondly, because this type of work
comes easiest and most naturally to me. I am
not a highly emotional type. Norma could cry
real tears over two sofa cushions stuffed into a
long dress and white lace cap to look like a dead
baby, and she would do it so convincingly that
nine hundred people out of a thousand in front
would weep with her. That is real art. I
couldn't do it, but my kind of talent would lead
me to bounce that padded baby up and down on
my kiiee with absurd grimaces that would make
the same nine hundred people roar with laughter.

" Oh, yes," Miss Constance admitted in reply
to a question, " in my way I take my work quite
as seriously as my sister does hers. I would be
just as much in earnest about making the baby
seem ridiculous as she would about making it
seem real. That I think is the secret of being
funny on the speaking stage as well as on the
screen. If you want to be really funny, you
must take yourself seriously.

" Would I like to take an emotional part ?
Sometimes I think I would. There comes over
me a yearning to emote ! And yet I don't know.
I am not fitted, I fancy, to be a vampire. There
is nothing alluring or exotic or neurotic about me;
Perhaps I'll stick to comedy. At any rate until
the dear public begins to grow tired of it."

Nevertheless, she is quite capable, of appre-
ciating other and more serious forms of art.

On her recent visit to London she went to all
the best plays and enjoyed most her evening
at the Haymarket Theatre, where Sir J. M.
Barrie's Alary Rose " is being performed. That
poetical and mystical fancy she declared to be
the most beautiful play she had ever seen.

Norma Talmadge, though equally charming
in another way, is a more responsible and digni-
fied young lady than her lively sister.

The first impression one gets of Norma is of
bigness, of womanly sympathy and under-
standing, and, above all, of human quality.
She knows no professional jealousy, nor has she
lost her head by reaching the pinnacle of success
while still in the very early twenties.

Next to her generosity and impulsiveness,
ambition is perhaps her most dominant charac-
teristic. She goes from triumph to triumph,
but still is not satisfied.

Besides working on the pictures early and late,
she studies singing and dancing. She also keeps

NORMA as a gill oi fifteen.

Picture Show, November lZt/i. 1920.

"SISTERS THREE."

[Continued from
page 19.)

her work, but with her every detail is impor-
tant where her profession is concerned. •

Among the thousands of letters she receives
every week from admirers all over the world
many are from women who want to know where
she gets her dresses.

But, as she says, it is the personal element
that counts in dross. You must have a very
clear idea in your own mind of the effect you :
want. Then you can go to the professional
dress-designer and in consultation get the
costume which suits both you and the occasion
for which you require it.

Recently she discussed the subject at length.

" Why are certain things the fashion at one
period ? " she asked. " Why do styles recur
at certain intervals ? Where do fashions have
their origin ?

" If you want to be a well-dressed woman —
and every normal woman does — you should
learn the answers to these questions. I had to
find out the answers for myself when I was
studying style from the standpoint of the
screen. It is not every girl who can afford to
engage the services of a great stylist to dress her.
I certainly could not during the first years I
was in motion picture work. A great number of
my dresses during that period I made myself.

" To-day is, above all others, the day of the
individual, the time when every discerning
woman knows she can draw on any period of
style to enhance her good looks.

" Why is it that nowadays we are breaking
away from uniformity in style and seeking to
take the best from history and tradition that
we may apply it to modern uses ? I think the
War has something to do with it. Most of the
nations fighting against Germany sent repre-
sentatives to France, and the French dress ex-
perts, who are wonderfully quick in picking up
ideas, borrowed inspiration from the national
dress of the people who fought shoulder to
shoulder with their men. Jean Paton, great
soldier as he is a great stylist, came back to

Paris from the trenches and brought with him
the Algerian inspiration. The bright-coloured
embroideries of last season, the deep sashes and
harem skirt3 we saw everywhere, were the result
of Paton's genius. But after all, novelty is not
the most important thing. Good dressing is
chiefly a matter of line, a matter of studying
one's own figure, learning the good and bad
points, and then finding out the styles that
make the most of the good points and
minimise the bad ones.

" For example, if your arms are thin, you
should wear long sleeves that are rather full.
If your heart is set on short sleeves, you should
have them cut so as to reach at least an inch
below the elbow.

" By the way," says Miss Talmadge, " I do
hope Englishwomen will not judge my taste
in dress by some of the pictures you see of me
in your English picture houses. I am charmed
with wonderful London, but I am really dis-
tressed to see old, out-of-date pictures in your
picture shows. Some in which I am shown were
made three and four years ago, when I was
making good. They are silly and out of date in
theme and dress. I really wonder what the
women in the audiences think of my four-year-
old frocks ! "

However, the evil to which Miss Talmadge
thus draws attention is likely soon to be reme-
died. The British patrons of the pictures are
beginning to get restive, and the time is possibly
not far off when only the latest and best
American films will be accepted in this country.

One interesting fact is that the Talmadge
sisters, like some other leading American film
stars, intend to return to this country next
year and make pictures here.

They also intend to take steps to insure their
latest films being exhibited promptly in England.

The art of the cinema is developing so
rapidly that a film is very soon out of date.
And although all the work of the Talmadges is
interesting, an artiste - naturally likes to be
judged by her best work.

It is one of the penalties of fame that as soon
as a cinema actress becomes a great popular

favourite, all her early and immature work is
dragged into light and offered to the public
ostensibly as a fair sample of her work.

However, both Norma and Constance
Talmadge are too firmly established in popular
favour to have much to fear from this practice.
Their new films, excellent in every way are
being widely exhibited, and it is by these films
that the gifted young artistes will be judged by
their countless British admirers.

In the next year or two there is likely to be
a great fight between British and American
film producers, and we have little doubt that
as a result of that fight, rubbishy American
films will be driven out of British picture
houses. The public are already demanding
something better, and they will get it.

How soon a change /or the better come3, will,
of course, depend largely on the public.

A famous American producer visiting England
has put the case very tersely :

" The people of this country," he said, " are
being imposed upon by the exhibition of so
much trash. It is partly due to their own
fault in tolerating so much fourth-rate stuff,
and partly to the system we Americans have
introduced here. Our producers are able to
offer you about ten times as many pictures as
you need. The British people, instead of
taking advantage of this over-production by
selecting only the very best, have calmly
allowed their exhibitors to force them to take
good and bad alike in blocks.

" Great Britain has chosen cheapness in-
stead of quality. If the public in England will
make a stand against the rubbish which has
been poured over here, and demand the best
we have to give, they will soon get the best."

This is, no doubt, true. But whatever the
future holds, lovers of the pictures in this
country will always be grateful to the many
clever Americans who have contributed to
their delight, and certainly in that list a very
high place will always be held by the beautiful
and gifted sisters, Norma, Natalie and Con-
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FILMS OF THE WEEK.

" In Old Kentucky."

Anita Stewart and Mahlon Hamilton (Jury's.)

HERE i9 a tale of the mountain region of
old Kentucky, adapted from the stage
success, and starring the beautiful Anita
Stewart as the mountain maid. A delightful
love story played against a background of
exquisite scenery.

" L "Apache."

Dorothy Dalton (Paramounl-Arlerafl).

THE gay haunts of Bohemian Paris and the
sordid world of the Apache — both are
shown in this picture with a wonderful
realism and fascination. A dual role is acted
by Dorothy Dalton with much power and
artistic insight. The wife of nn Apache finds her
double in a rich American girl in Paris. When
she takes her place, many thrilling adventures
begin, and lead up to a startling climax. Firat-
elass entertainment.

"The Web of Chance."

Peggy Hyland (Fox).

PRETTY Peggy Hyland, as a girl detective,
who thought her lover was a thief, and
endeavoured to run him to earth. A great
surprise awnits her when she does capture her
quarry, and in the end she finds herself a captive
for life. A rollicking story that will enliven the
most depressed.

" The Elusive Pimpernel."

Marie Blanche and Cecil Humphreys (Sloll).

A HIGHLY distinctive photo-play of Baroness
Orc7.y's delightful romance. Cecil Hum-
phreys and Marie Blanche head the cast
as the inimitable Sir Percy and his lovely wife,
and production and photography are of the best.

" Beyond the Dreams of Avarice."

Joyce Dearsley and Henry Victor (Ideal).

THE tragedy of ungovernable greed of money.
Sir W alter Besant's famous novel adapted
for the screen. This is an intensely
dramatic story, which leads up to a terrific
climax. British acting at its best.

"The Polar Star."

Manora Thew and Hayford Hobbs
( Walturdaw).

THE mystery of a London solicitor's death
and dishonour, and the attempts to
unmask the villains, form the basis of this
British photo-play, through which a pretty love
story runs. Delightful scenes, showing the
beauties of the Italian lakes. Average production.

" The Case of Lady Camber."

Violet Hopson and Stewart Rome (Broadwesl).

AS absorbing photo-play indeed is the screen
version of H. A. Vachell's stage success.
A cast of popular players, headed by
Violet Hopson and Stewart Rome, and including
Pollie Emery in her original part of " Peach,"
present clever portrayals. ,

" An Innocent Adventuress."

Vivian Martin (Paramount -Arterajl).

DELIGHTFUL comedy-drama, featuring the
dainty star. She tried to help a friend
by stopping a letter, and then found her
dog had chewed it up. She thinks she is a thief,
and is led into all sorts of adventures, but in the
end she steals nothing but somebody's heart.

" Angel Esquire."

Avrele Sydney and Gebtrude McCoy
(Qaumoni).

EDGAR WALLACE'S exciting novel" in
picture form. The mystery of an old
man's fortune, hidden in a huge column.
He leaves a puzzle, and the first person to solve

it gets the money.

"The Girl Woman."

Gladys Leslie and Maurice Costello
( Vitagraph ).

DRAMA with plenty of thrills. The story of
a girl who tries to clear her father who
has been in prison, and the intrigues into
which this leads her. Woven into this web of
mystery is a slight love story.

The " Picture Snow" Critic.

Picture Show, yovcmbtr llth, 1920.

IN THE DRESSING-ROOM.

^fVrinlcles; — TKe Cause of Premature ^fVrinkles — How to
Prevent Them — Their Cure — The Pict ure Gtrl s Suit.

IT is tho habit of tho majority of women when
they have passed the age of thirty — and
inaybo married and settled down — to neglect
their looks, and personal well-being. Perhaps
they find so much to occupy their time that thoy
think it is not worth while troubling about their
appearance. But littlo do thoy realise what
effect such neglect will have upon them in yoars
to come. For time will, without doubt, lay its
hand on the physical body and lessen tho
underlying support of flesh and limb. Of course,
it is out of tho question to wholly outwit
tho hand of time, but, nevertheless, it can bo
stayed, and its ravages may be held at bay.

Wrinkles in Youth.

THIS is true in regard to wrinkles, whose
coming is ever dreaded, and whose first
appearance is allied with a sort of despair
and resignation to the inevitable. Often times,
top, wrinkles can be found in quite young folk,
these having been encouraged by scowling over
fine work, or poring over a book, or even by
grimacing during conversation in a manner that
is really as unnecessary as it is unpleasant to see.

Tho wrinkles that come from laughter are not
unsightly as every ono of their curves denote a
happy disposition. But those that spring from
a morose nature are as strongly indicative of
temperament, and these becomo more unsightly
as time goes on.

Deep set wrinkles that result from years cannot
be removed nor can they be lessened much by
any method. But there are many preventatives
of "wrinkles, which, if carefully practised will
delay their coining for years. The first and
roost important possession is a
happy disposition. That may be
cultivated and made a habit as
readily as any beauty culture in
the world.

Miss May Allison says that,
" More wrinkles are caused by
worry, than by years." Then she
adds her remedy. " Therefore
every woman should keep alive,
take an interest in all things, and
keep a broad outlook on life. She
should live up to the times, and
look alive. Tho flesh of such a
woman will be kept young, the
face rounded, and the smile
pleasant, and tho wholo .figure
erect. AH this will do much for
the outwitting of time, mentally."
And here I think this beautiful
actress has hit the nail right on
the head.

Prevention is Better than
Cure.

HOWEVER, much can be done
physically to prevent the
wear and tear of years.
Cleanliness is the first rule. Allow
no neglect to permit dust or grease
to settle in the pores of the skin.
When drying the- face with a
towel, for instance, alwaya rub
the skin back towards the hair.
Do not rub downwards, as the
lines tend towards that way, and
following their direction will
naturally accentuate them. Do
not allow the. skin on tho face to
grow dry or harden, nor become
thin or sallow. Exercise — walking
or any other form that causes
perspiration i3 absolutely necesssary
to keep the tissues of the skin young -
and firm. Wrinkles are usually
tho result of loose flabby skin.
Therefore any pure lotion that
tightens the muscles will havo
a beneficial effect on their delay*

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Mivssago is undoubtedly tho best treatment
for tho removal of wrinkles. Before commencing
to massage tho face, the skin should bo steamed
to make it more receptivo 'o the cream. When
massaging wrinkles or lines on tho face, re-
member that a light and gentle stroke should
be employed.

For crow's-feet smear a littlo cream at the
corner of tho eyes, and gently tap it in with the
tips of the fingers. Never rub tho skin around
the eyes, as by so doing you are liable to .stretch
it, this part being the most delicate of the wholo
face.

Wrinkles between tho eyebrows should bo
massaged with a littlo cream with the tip of the
middlo finger. Work in a rotary movement.
Then remove with a pad of cotton -wool any
Superfluous grease, leaving merely all that has
been absorbed, to remain in the pores. Five
aunut.es treatment is enough each day.

To Remove Lines from the Face.

THE lines from chin to mouth are the most
ageing, and aro invariably the result of
mental or physical suffering. Therefore,
a more persevering treatment is required for
them. Smear cream gently along each line,
then slip the tongue under it., and massage across,
not rip and down. Afterwards stroke the face
gently from the comers of the mouth towards
the ear.

A rule to bo remembered when massaging the
face is that all movements should bo upwards
and outwards, that is from the chin to the fore-
head, and from the mouth to the
ear. An astringent lotion should
be applied to brace up the muscles
after each massage.

When wrinkles have once settled
on the face, great care should be
taken with the application of
powder. It should not bo allowed
to settle in any of the wrinkles.
If it is, it will only cause tho lines
to deepen and make them all the
more difficult to remove. If powder
settles at all in the lines, it should
be brushed out immediately with a
" hare's foot."

The Picture Girl's Suit.

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to different arrangement of
pattern, and thus help decorate
the costume. Striped suitings
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are delightful for every-day wear,
and as serviceable as they are
charming, being fashioned in effec-
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October ha been o -c of the busiest of months for
th - BROAD A/ES T C m >any. No IcMhan lour
film, have b en coin p. e ltd b/ ibi. (amou-* a.i-
Bn ,sh Coinnany ( urinx hat lime. 11 The Gre »t
Gay Road " from Tom G (Don's story, wa* the
firs*.. This t*is aiewart Horn'; as tbC v> Dt RDM-
tramp, a id is ■ typ cal y tin fi m I he i

came " T ent* La-»t Case." a thrill ng selective
s ory irom E. C. B?n ley s famous n-ivel Gre orv
Scott pi ys the letdin« p<rt, in this lilm, with
Cameron Carr, as th ■ po ice nspector*. Both ot
them have rcJor ncd in this picture, -n i left vil ain-
ous deeJ-. tone f»r a time. Cameron Cj »rr, how-
ever, mikes un for his'' good" 4 t in "A
Rank Out id r," another BROADWEST racing
film So. in thi-. picture he v.tars as a vii.ain ol the
deepe t < ye

Pol owinti these three productions is * Her
Penalty," an original story t lliug of li e in the
Austnlian hush. St wait Rome has the leaning
p^rt in th s flun, a id makc> an exce.icnt bac*t-
woodsman.

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The Walturd^w r«lea e list included lor October
MSt, ti»e BROADWEST film ' The Romance oi a
Movie Stir." Apart iro n the exceptional scenic
interest of tliis film (for it show > .he manufacture
ol a mot on picture) the acting is oi toe hi^h st
stand u d, being can ied out. by an all star cost* It
is headed by Vi > el Hop-»jn. a- Va na <_ieorj,;<\ the
movie sta , w h Stewart Rome, G e^ory Scott,
Cameron C irr. Mercy Ha ton. and Vio.it E.Hott
in the oth r leading p >its. Such an eminent ^ant
is --eldom seen— and what is more, they aie all
British Stars.

n n n

O i November jith is eleased the BROADWEST
produc tioo, "The Case of Lady Camber." This
film is amine the best of Bnti h piodu ions.
The -toiy is an mcellent n -, the act ng of the
best, and the pho og aphv and -e tings aie
beyon 1 reproach, Violet H p^on, and Siewait
Rome play the nur&e and doctor itspectiv >y,
whilst G eRory Sco t and Mercy Hut'o.i app -ar
a". Loid and Lady Camb-r. It is a British fil.n
which no one should miss.

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THE QUESTION OF RE-ISSUES.

AMONG the large number of films released for public
exhibition eacb year, there are usually a few
which leave a more lasting impression than the
remainder on those who see them. This fact may
rightly be regarded as a proof of their quality, for it is
these few pictures which members of the public are
anxious to see once again, even though several months
or more may have passed since their first release.

We have, of course, re-issues of old pictures from
time to time, but in some cases it seems hard to tell
what could have induced their second exhibition.
Certainly there appears to be no public demand for
them, and their inclusion in the programme must
necessarily mean the crowding out of other and better
films, whether old or new.

On the other hand, queries often reach me asking
whether there is any likelihood of an old picture
starring this or that favourite being shown once more.
This is never an easy question to answer. It rests
with the exhibitor. If the requests for any particular
him happen to be in the majority, then the local
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Tnight find it a good policy to screen the picture in
question.

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ment of those who fail to see their favourite film once
more, but it is also easy in certain cases to discover
the reason. There is not much use in desiring the
re-issue of a picture, no matter by whom it may have
been produced, if nobody else seems eager for it.
Obviously, the exhibitor cannot please every individual
taste. He must consider the limit to his programme
and the release of new pictures. It would be advisable,
therefore, for those who desire to see some past screen
success to enlist first of all the support of their friends
and then press their requests.

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Will readers kindly remember that as this paper
goes to press a considerable time before publica-
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the writer (not for publication), as no anonymous
communications can be answered. Address : The
Editor, "Picture Show," Room 85, The Fleetway
House, Farringdon Street. London, E.C.4.

Norma (New Jersey). — I am glad to hear that you
and your American chums enjoy reading this paper
each week. It seems to be getting famous every-
where. Many here will no doubt envy you for
being able to see so many film favourites in the
flesh. Here are two potted biographies you want.
Charles Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, in
1801, and is 6 feet in height. His colouring is brown
hair and eyes, and his wife is Clara Grant. Crcighton
Hale is an Irishman bom in Cork, twenty-eight years
ago. He is married to a non-professional. His
height is 5 ft. 10 ins., with light brown hair and blue
eyes.

Maud (Burton-on-Trent). — I had to give up count-
ing the question n.arks in your letter, though I
believe this will satisfy you all the same. Pronounce
Sessue in two syllables. Sorry, but Louis Wiiloughby
won't tell me just yet. Wyndham Standing and
Conway Tearle both began life in the same year,
1880. Besides the one you mention, Conway has
appeared in " Stella Maris," " The Reason Why."
and " Virtuous Wives." He was born in New York,
but was educated in this country. Hugh Dabernon
Stoke was Oliver Loach in " God's Good Man."
Herl>ert Rawlinson in " Kiss or Kill," " A House
Divided." and " The Carter Case." \*ou can fling
some more at me when you like.

Louise Mauve (New Southgate). — So Elsie Fer-
guson's height puzzles you, and you can never be
certain what it Is. The measurements as Riven fne
are 5 ft. 0 in. Your other favourite, Winifred King-
ston, is a London girl, and has played lead with Dustin
Farnum in sevcralof his plays. She has reddish hair,
grey eyes and is not more than 5 ft. in height.

" Inquisitive " (Leamington Spa). — Shows what
a generous kid Wesley Barry is to have sent you eight
photos of himself all signed in his best manner in
reply to your letter. Y'es. it is true, alas, about poor
Bobby Harron's death ! Sidney Wood has played for
Harma. Ideal, and Samuelson. He was born in 1008,
and Her Benny," " The Ever-Open Door," and
" The Warrior Strain " are his picture*.

N. M. S. (Belsize Grove). — If you haven't ere this
had a reply from Douglas Fairbanks, there would
be no harm in your writing to him again. Doug:
doesn't disappoint anyone if he can help it. Some
of Kathleen Kirkbam's films are The Beloved
( 'heater," " The Beauty Market," " The Master
Man," and " The Third Kiss."

J. B. (Lichfield). — As far as I know at present
Alice Brady's is that artiste's real name, and her
married name is Mrs. James Crane. Her height is
5 ft. 7 in., and she was born in New York City twenty-
three years ago. Colouring — brown hair and eyes.
A few films in which she has starred are " Her Great
Chance," " The Death Dance," " Her Silent Sacri-
fice," " The Ordeal of Rosetta," and " Redhead."
Sorry, J. B., but I have no photos of her to send you.

" White Heather " (Abertillery). — I believe. I
have heard from your town before. " Quite a number
of readers, of course, are answered by post. The
late Olive Thomas was born in Charleroi, Pa., and
Jack Pickford. who is twenty-fonr, was born in
Toronto, Canada. The star who shone with sncli
brilliance in " Blackie's Redemption " was Bert Lytcll.
Weil, you haven't been terribly inquisitive so far.

" Pes " (Wolverhampton). — Mary Hay, whom
Richard Barthelmess "married, is otherwise known
as Mary Hay Caldwell. Here is something about
Conrad Nigel, as requested. He is the husband of
Ruth Helms, and stands 6 ft. high. He was born in
Des Moines, Iowa, fn 1800. Forever After " and
" Little Women " are two of his pictures. ..

Gaby (Paris). — I had to brush up my knowledge
of French when your letter arrived. Mary MacLcan,
who played in " Marriage Beyond the Tomb," is a
Universal artiste. No, Wallace Reid is American,
not English, and his wife is Dorothy Davenport.
You can write to him through the office of this paper.
Thanks very much for all the nice things you say.
I am giad you like the Picture Show.

Anita (Cheadle). — I am afraid Jack Armstrong
must be very shy. Anyway, he is keeping well iu
the background so far as personal information is
concerned. Ben Wilson and Neva Gerber were the
leads in " The Mystery Ship." Marie Walcamp was
the heroine in " The Moon-Child."

Anthony (Barrv). — George Walsh was born on
March 16th, 1802, and Antonio Moreno in 1388.
The latter, however, does, not tell us his birthday.

Gladys (Earlsfleld) and J. A. (Ramsey).— Fran-
celia Billington was in " The Masked Heart " with
William Russell. In " The Four Shadows " the
names given are Rene Navarre, M. Da vert, and
Suzanne Linker.

"Gyp" (Calcutta). — I know you have written
before, and I do not regard yon as a pest at all. You
are quite welcome. But remember your real name
should be given in every letter. You ask me to make
inquiries about the Picture Shows you have not
had, bnt how could I, with the insufficient address
you gave, no name, and no information whether
you are a subscriber or otherwise. You must let
me know fully. I am very sorry, but I cannot spare
the space to publish any photos of dead artistes,
however papular they were. Y'ou have no idea of
the numerous requests I receive about those who arc
still in the land of the living.

" Hukble " (Bombay). — Thanks for your and
your friend's subscriptions. 'In answer to your ques-
tion, there is no limit to the number of letters you can
send through the office of this paper. So now yon can
both get busy.

"Henry" (Warwick).— You mint blame the
size of my mail-bag. Olive Tell was born in New
Y'ork, but when she won't tell — just yet, at any rate.
I note you like our art plates the best, and the
coloured ones especially. Other information will
be given when made known.

Josephine (South Shields). — For sixteen, your
thirst for knowledge is simply staggering. Three
foolscap sheets all full of question marks ! Alas,
etiild, my space is limited ! Y'es, Mae Marsh was in
" Miss Misunderstood." Madge Evans is eleven.
Tom Moore was born in 1885, and is not married at
the moment. Alma Reubens was the heroine in
"The Answer" and Jane Novak in "The Claws."
Come again.

" Myra " (Liverpool). — Whatever you saw about
Pearl White In previous issues of this paper was quite
correct. But no definite news has lieen received to
the effect that she Is married to Wallace McCntehcon
thus confirming the rumours you have heard. Ethel
Grcv Torrv. who played in " The Carter Case." was
born in Oakland, California. Her height is 5ft. Cin.,
and she has brown hair and grey eyes. She »lm>
played in " The Sign of the Cross," " Arseue Lupin,"
and " Greater Than Love."

S. E. R. (Wakefield). — So you don't mean to let ma
be idle. Well, work may be made a tonic or a
poison, but I shan't let it kill me, though I take 1 < :
doses of it. Ann Little has dark hair and brown eye*.
She was born in Slsson, California, twenty-six years
ago. Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago, HllnoK
and has reddish brown hair and blue eyes. Eni I
Bennett has light hair and blue eyes. Born n Y'ork,
Australia. Pauline Frederick's colouring Is dark
brown hair and blue eyes. Age. thirty-four, ami
birthplace, Boston, Mass. Jack Hoxie Is thirty, and
was norn in Oklahoma. Thomas Meighan, liorn
thirtv-two years ago in Pittsburg. Pa., has black hair
ai d br >wn eyes.

Pic turf: Show,

2. J

M. K. (Cairo).— See the Picture Show dated July
•24th. The tllm you mention has not been shown hero
; i s \ct. There are doubtless other Japanese screen
actors, hut none so well-known as Scssue Hayakawa.

" Kktty " (Eastcote). — Your newsagent will be
able to tell you. I have not heard that tho Mac-
Allisters or the Lees you mention are related. Oppo-
site Constance Talmadge In "The Lesson " was Tom
Moore, in " The Shuttle." Albert Roscoc was her
leading man, while Harrison Ford was with her in
" Who Cores ? "

'• Blue Eves (Johnstone). — Manora Thew and
Haytord Hobbs were in " The Man and the Moment."
Eddie Lyons is thirty-three, and his famous partner
of the screen, Lee Moran, is two years younger.
Frank Kccnan, not W. S. Hart, was in " The Ruler of
the Koad." Sorry, I don't know who in filmland was
born on the same date as you. Several artistes do not
give their birthdays.

Maud " (Norwich). — What were the questions
you asked me before.? I really don't remember them.
However, in reply to yours before me now, Lina
Cavalier! was the star in " The Woman of Impulse."

" Man-Hater At Twenty-one " (Ware). — Ah,
my dear young lady you will change your mind
before you are much older. So be- Ware ! 1 can
settle the little argument you have had by saying

that Mary Pickford did not play In " Painted Lips."
C. W. Mason was in " Hard Boiled," and J. Barney
Sherry in " The Secret Code." The leads in " Temp-
tation " were played by (Jcraldine Farrar and Wallace
Keid.

" Jerry " (Worcester). — I presume you want no
sauce since you ask for a " very nice answer." This
is as nice as I can make It. Stewart Rome does not
say whether he was ever a bank clerk in your city.
According to his own confession he took up civil
engineering, worked for a time at Greenwich, but soon
threw up his job to go on the stage. Then he went
out to Australia where he had a varied career before
returning to this country to start on the films. He
was born in Newbury, and is not married. It will
be better and less disheartening to you to " bloom
unseen than to wander round film studios wearing
out boot leather.

" SYDALO " (Brighton). — Glad you value our art
plates so much. Everyone says that they are
unecmalled. But what suggestion can I offer you if
framing them you find is too expensive, and simply
pinning them on the wall makes them ditty. No
doubt you have thought of the album idea already.
I must leavo you to put on your thinking cap again,
unless some other reader can solve the problem.
(More answers reel week )

WHERE TO WRITE TO YOI'H FAVOURITE
" FILM 8TAK. — You are kindly requested
not to a»k for any addresses by post, owing to the
large number of other queries that have to be
answered. If you wish to communicate at once
with any artiste not named below, write your
letter, putting- Hie name ol the star on tlio
envelope, and enclose it with a loose lid. -tamp to
the Editor, The Picti rb Show, Room 85. The
Fleetway House, Karringdon Street, London,
E.C.4., and it will be forwarded by the next mail.
If the letter weighs more than 1 oz. it will require
an additional Id. .-.tamp for each extra ounce. BD a
letters cannot be specially acknowledged by tho
Editor. Kememhcr always, when writing to artistes,
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name of your county and country, and mention the
Picture Show to ensure the safety of a reply. It
must be understood, however, that we cannot
guarantee that such letters will be replied to.
Please keep these addresses for reference.

MILTON SILLS, care of Ooldwyn Film Companv,
Culver City, California, U.S.A.

MARIE WALCAMP, care of Universal Film Com-
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Picture Show, Kovcvibcr 20lfi, 1920.

Famous Readers of tke " Picture
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No. 45-JACKY ATKINSON.

AMERICA lias not the monopoly of screen
comediennes. Here is Jacky Atkinson,
whom we are shortly to see as the village
idiot in a coming British photo-play. Jacky is
no idiot when it comes to choosing honks to
road and enjoy. But you have found this nut
for yourself, by one glance at the nho\e snap
of her, Jacky reads the Picture Show.
— —

Your Request Answered.

YOU wi!l have noticed by now that your
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— ■»-♦ —
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I WANT to particularly thank the render-,
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Judging by the letters I have received they are
very many, and I have not disappointed them.
In fact, I am flattered to think I have pleased
them. May I give a last word of appeal to any
reader who has not yet °een a copy to buy ono
to-morrow, when No. 6 will be out !

Among other fine things I hove gathered
together for this issue, I may mention : James
Knight edits a page in which he tells us why he
is "Afraid of Girls"; well illustrated pen
pictures of Chrissie White and Henry Edwards ;
a letter from Gregory Scott to the up-to-date girl ;
long complete story, and all the usual features.

By the Author of " Destiny."

OUR Editor has asked me to tell you that in
next week's issue of the Picture Show
will begin a splendid new serial entitled
" Manacled by Money." When I tell you this
story is thought by the author to in the best
yet from her pen. and that it is written by the
author of " The Silent Dupe" and "Destiny,"
I know you will welcome the news.

" The Wonder Man " at the White House.

I HAVE ju?t heard that the film version of
"The Wonder Man," in which Georces
Carpcntier plays the hero part, the story
that is now appearing in this paper. h;.s been
sliown to President Woo-.'lrow Wilson, at the
White House.

— —
Who Had Got Who ?

DURING the filming of 'Suds," Mi'- coming
Mary Pickford photo-play, about a
hundred cats had to be used in one ?cene.
One black Tom-cat, of unusual promise. was
selected to do a special bit of acting, but just at
the critical moment he broke loose, and clis-
appeared in a tiny space between the sets.
The director, who had written the scene for

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Mr. Tom Cat. rushed to the spot, and turns)
his arm into the crevice, where Tom was hiding,
then — let out a real yell !

" Got liitn ? " inquired the camera man.

" Lor', no ! " whs 'the painful response.
" He's got me ! "

He Didn't Escape.

WESLEY BARRY w is delight id the other
day, when he was told that he was to
ac-ompa iv the players of his company,
who were going away for scenes into the country,
especially when he heard that his teacher would
remain behind.

Jlis joy was great. He had visions of no more
lesions for four weeks. But when Wes. got out.
o: t he train, the first person he saw was a young
lady with some books under her arm.

' I am your new teacher for the time you are
here." she said ; and Wesley says she was even
stricter than the one at home.

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D. W. Griffith's Plans.

IT is rumoured that David W. Griffith is
finding production of motion pictures in
New York too expensive, and the latest,
news is that he is going to Southern California
to build a studio, and there make the most
ambitious phpto-p'.ny of his career- This is to
have Abraham Lincoln as its central character.

Mildred's Accomplishment.

MILDRED DAVIS is much liked in the film
colony. She is a great home lover, and
■ delights in making old-fashioned rag
rugs out of old pieces of silk, an art taught
her when a child by her Quaker grandmother.
All her friends have received these acceptable
gifts. at Christmas or on their birthdays.

If yen could peep into Mildred's boudoir you
would scq many of them in service on the floor.

No Wonder Jack is Indignant.

JACK CONWAY is a very indignant man
these days. He h?is been accused of curling
his hair. Jack indignantly denies this,
claiming that hi* hair is naturally curly, and
that even as an actor he would not resort to
such artifices.

He is now acting the role of William Sanborn
in a virile photo-play, entitled ' The Killer."
His director says that ho cannot conjure up a
funnier vision than that of the handsome,
athletic young herb of " The Killer," retiring to
bed with his hair in curling-paper..

When Bob McKim Dies.

ROBERT MeKIM was caught the other
day buying a picture frame. It now
hangs in his studv, and contains a letter

from a newspaper criiic, for Mr. McKim sayi ij
is the best compliment he lias ever receivo'l
One paragraph reads ;

" Every time I see you pass out of a picture^
down'd by the hero in the final round, 1 feel
like applauding, not because wo an rid of th >
villein, but with something of the feeling with
which one applauds an old tragedian of the ol I
Stage days doing a classic flop to tlio board*
You build up something powerful in a pul.ii.-
play that one misses as soon as you pass out.
As 1 heard someone :ay at. one of \oiir |>a:.ur<M
the other day: 'Picture's over, Ho!> MrKim's
dead. Let 'a go ! ' "

Bananas— and His Arm.

TOD SLOAN, the famous jockey, who
playing in a coming film, cut it led ' Th"
Spender," seems to have an uncanny
influence over horses.

The other day he demonstrated his skill,
when he subdued a very nervous horse, win
had just thrown one of the picture cowboys.

One of the cowboys made a bet that
could ride any of the worst bronchos in Chey-
enne. He told how Tod made his horse sat a
banana, and added : "The only other irreg'hir
diet I've ever seen that horse take uni a btia
of my arm ! "

Another Royal Compliment.

1IIE Hepworth Picture Plays. Ltd.. have
received another Royai compliment.
You will remember that Cecil Hepworth' -i
comedy, "All's Button," was shown lo tho
Prince of Wales and his staff, and that the
Prince sent a message of hearty congratulation?.
Following this, comes the i lformation that,
"The City of Beautiful Nonsense" and "Tho
City on the Hill" were also filmed before I In
Highness and staff, and regret was expresses I
that more of such excellent British picluScd
-had not been shown abroad.

Real Treasure Hunt.

AN interesting way of advertising the ('ha
version of "Treasure Island" comes
from America. Arousing the piratical
instinct, which lies more or le=s dormant in
the heart of every small boy by the mention
of Long John, the Good Ship Haspinola, tho
half-witted Ben Gunn, and all the chariniug
characters in the exciting story of "Treasure
Island," a piece of ground was hired, and t
real treasure was buried. Three treasure chests
were buried, containing vouchers, convertible
into money or passes to view the picture. A
chart of location was provided to any one on
application.

Monte Carlo Filmed.

W'HEX we see " The Empire of Dian.onds."
a Pathe film, we shall see the. famous
Casino at Monte Carlo on the screen.
For the first time, it is said, permission has been
granted to film scenes within the gambling
establishment, and these scenes were taken
when the play was at its heigh;.

The Smallest Foot in Filmland.

MISS DAISY BCRREL, who will shortly
be seen in the new boxins: film, t-The
Bride of Fancy," is said to possess the
tiniest foot in filmland. So small are. her feet
that all her shoes have to be specially marie
for her, as she is, as she explains, "between
size?."

RUBY MILLER and PARDOE WOODMAN in "The
Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown," a coming Stoll film
version oi E. Phillips Oppenheim's famous noveL

Talmadges Coming Back.

NORMA, Constance, and Natalie Taltnarl^e
are now back, hard at work after their
two months holiday. They are moat
enthusiastic about their trip, and have planned
another for next year, when they mean not only
to return to England, France, Italy, and Spain,
but to visit Japan well

Picture SIiow, Xotmhcr 20f/<, 1920.

"PICTURE SHOW" CHAT. (C^y3,f flW

Alice Joyce as Cousin Kate.

AS you luiow, " Cousin Kate " was an enor-
mous stage success. We are now to see
it on the screen with Alice Joyce as
Cousin Kate.

Adventure," in which frhe star repeatedly took
chances of both life and limb in his desperate
stunts.

Appropriate.

MILDRED DAVIS has just had two new pets
sent to her, and has christened them
. " Screech " and " Scream " respectively.
Their names are appropriate, as they are two
East Indian paraqueets.

Left £6,000.

OLIVE THOMAS PTCKFORD, the popular
little star who died in Paris, lias left no
* will. She has left personal property to
the value of about six thousand pounds.

The latest film in which she appeared was
" Everybody's Sweetheart." This is now
showing in America, and we are to see it over
here shortly.

A Two-Months' Job. .

WHEN you see " Earthbound," the Goldwyn
sensationally successful photo-play, re-
member there is one man, who is not
mentioned in connection with the film, who
deserves a great deal of credit. He is named
Alexander Troffey, who cut and edited the film
to its present size. This job kept Mr. TroHey
hard at work for two months.

This film, written by Basil King, is now show-
ing to record houses at Covent Garden Theatre,
London, and will shortly be shown in big houses
nil over the country. It has a spiritualistic
theme.

Johnny's Latest Catch.

TWO turtles have found a home in the big
water tank at the Goldwyn studios.
These are the property of Johnny Jones,
having been caught by him while away making
Hcenes for " Edgar the Explorer," the seventh
of the Booth Tarkington series, which will soon
be seen over here.

Charles Hutchison Injured.

CHARLES HUTCHISON, who, as you know,
is one of the most daring actors who has
ever appeared before the camera, has been
seriously injured, while making scenes for the
coming serial " The Double Adventure."

With two wrists broken, both legs severely
lacerated, and other painful, if not serious
injuries, Mr. Hutchison will probably not return
tc the studios for two months.

This is particularly unfortunate, as Air.
Hutchison had almost completed " The Double

Three Hundred Hats.

IT has always been a mystery where Raymond
I Hatton gets his wonderful hats from that
fit so well with the characters he portrays.
He tells me he had three hundred, some he
stole, some he found at pawnshops, he picked
two out of the gutter, and designed the others
himself.

FINDING FAULTS IN FILMS.

In the picture, " The Bondage of Barbara,"
featuring Mae Marsh, Jack — the employer's
son — is seen threatening Tony. They are all
^n a room, and Jack is wearing a straw hat.
They turn the gas off, and the scene changes to
the passage outside, and there Jack is wearing
a large cap. — 5s. awarded to S. W. Norman,
79, Talfourd Road, Peckham, S.E.15.

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A BUNGLED BUNGALOW.
A couple in " His Bridal Night " go for their
honeymoon to Billy Barlow's bungalow, but
scenes in the " bungalow " show a flight of
stairs leading to bedrooms above. — 5s. awarded
to J. Nicholas, 36, Cornford Grove, Balham,
S.W.12.

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In Douglas Fairbanks picture, " Say, Young
Fellow," Douglas on entering the train is hatless
and empty-handed, and yet when we see him
get off the train he has a cap and two suit-
cases.— 5s. awarded to Barbara Tennant,
22, Rock Mount South, Old Swan, Liverpool.
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In " The Conqueror," featuring William
Farnum, the period was early Victorian, yet
in the background stood an up-to-date motor-
car.— 5s. awarded to Belle Reeves, 27, Culverden
Road, Balham, S.W.12.

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In " Exile," featuring Mrae. Petrova, the
villain, Perez, was conversing with his wife.
He extended his hand towards her. A " close-
up " was shown of his wife, and the villain's
hand was also shown. It was his right hand.
When tho camera flashed back to the scene
the villain was withdrawing his left hand.-^-
5s. awarded to Miss Martha Troland, 2, Frederick
Place, Belfast.

Five Shillings will be awarded to the sender of
every " Fault " published in the PICTURE
SHOW. If we receive the same " Fault " from
two readers, and we think it worthy ol a prize,
this will be given to the one which reaches us
first. Address your postcard : Editor, Film
Faults, PICTURE SHOW, Gough House, Gough
Square, London, E.C.4.

FROM " OVER THERE."

Notes and News From America.
An Electric Shock.

MADAME PETROVA leaves for the middle
west this week to fulfil a vaudevillo
engagement. She had just time to spend
a week at her country place in Great Ne.ek
beforo starting on her tour. Damo Nature
arranged a little surprise party for her in tho
way of a bolt of electricity. It struck the
chimney, came dancing down through the fire-
place, lighted on a choice statue of Psyche, and
darted backwards to the birdcage. Psyche
was broken into fragments, but the little bird
was only overturned in his cage and badly shocked.

As for coming back to Merrie England,
inadame hopes to make that possible one of
these days. She had several interesting offers
to make pictures,' and if she should decide to
sign such a contract after her theatrical season
closes — well, who knows ? she may take a trip
across the sea. If she doe?, I hope I may come
with her — beautiful England and its charming
people is one thing in the world that measures
up to expectation.

Charles Chaplin a Recluse. .

POSSIBLY the most difficult man to oee at
the present time, not excepting President
Wilson, is Charles Spenser Chaplin. He
has retired into his shell, and absolutely refuses
to venture forth or submit to an interview of
any kind. This attitude on the part of the
comedian is caused by the recent trouble with
his wife, Mildred Harris Chaplin. Mrs. Chaplin,
in a series of interviews, told of her famous
husband's penurious habits, Keing quoted as
saying she couldn't extract a cent from him
with a vacuum cleaner.

Mr. Chaplin has taken these newspaper
stories to heart, and spends his iife dodgin;;
newspsfper reporters. A mutual friend called
on him in his apartment in the Ritz, and found
him with an old violin, pleying an assortment
of classics such as one could imagine Kubelik
or any of tho masters choosing. Another time,
he found Charlie deep in Macanlay's " History
of England." This led to the rumour Charlie
had sailed for England, and was going to visit
his mother. He was even said to have sailed
on the Olympic, but up to yesterday he had not
ieft New York.

Dennis O'Brien to Spread the Word.

DENNIS O'BRIEN, whose ollicial capacity
as general council of the United Artists'
Company, and pcrxonnl attorney for
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, gives
him prestige, has sailed for London. His
mission is to r.rrango for tho distribution
of tho Fairbanks, Pickford, and Griffith pro-
ductions. He hopes to overconio the difficulties
of delayed release dates, and has several plans
up his sleeve. Louella O. Parsons.

A thrilling scene in the coming photo-play " Dust of Desire," in which
BETTY BLYTHE wears this wonderful negligee.

VIRGINIA HAMMOND in the Hay-
ward production "The Battle."

LOUISE HUFF in a heart-breaking scene in the
coming pboto-play " False Pretences."

Picture Show, yorrmbt r Wt/i, 1920.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA FOR THE " PICTURE SHOW."

Two great stars who are acting for Robertson Cole : MAE MARSH, who
will soon be seen in " The Girl who Lived in the Woods " ; and OTIS
SKINNER, who appears as Hajj in " Kismet."

LUCILLE RICKSEN, the little Goldwyn player, who will appear in the "Edgar"
series, pretends that her dolls are film stars, and they all have to be " made up " ia
the orthodox style.

The newest Christie Comedy sport is water tennis, and here you see four of the artistes playing a mixed double. This game must be delightful in sunny California, but over
here We shall probably prefer to keep to the lawn or hard court. TJgh ! in our climate we would get rather chilly standing in the water waiting for a shot to come oar way.

Braioj !

The company tries to think of a funny " stunt " for the film, " The Farmerette.
HENRY is seen seated on the table.

GALE

EDDIE POLO and PANSY PORTER, who appear in ths
Universal production " Circus Life."

Picture Show, yovcmbcr 20t/i, 1920.

Read This First.

MR. ROBERT STONER, partner' in a firm
supplying France with military equipment,
introduces to the Potomac Club Henri D'Alour,
who falls in love with his daughter Dorothy. Gardner,
agent of the firm and bully of the club, invites
D'Alour to box and behaves in a very unsportsman-
like way. Next day news comes- that Stoner's chief
clerk, Granger, lias been murdered. The only motive
appears to be some contracts of Gardner's. Suspicion
falls on D'Alour.

The Reception.

MR. STONER was a man who prided him-
self on being able to judge a man by his
face, and without flattering himself he
could honestly say that in the course of a long
business career in which he had been constantly
called upon to exercise this gift, he had made
few mistakes.

But he was a little concerned about his
judgment of D'Alour, after the remarks passed
by Alan Gardner and his partner, Steven.
Also he had not been blind to the fact that
Detective Monro clearly suspected D'Alour.
In fact, the detective, though he had not said,
much, had clearly shown by his actions that he
was only biding his time to arrest the Frenchman.

Behind his natural anxiety that a man he had
introduced to the Potomac Club should prove
worthy of his trust, was the thought that his
daughter, Dorothy, was as much in love with
D'Alour as the Frenchman was with her.

Robert E. Stoner gave himself an hour in his
study to think put things, and at the end of that
time he came to a definite conclusion.
And tha' conclusion was this.
Although circumstances seemed to be against
D'Alour, he still believed in the young man.

Having settled the matter to his own satis-
faction, Mr. Stoner dismissed it from his mind,
with the parting reflection that whoever had
made the attempt to get at the contracts, the
fact remained that they were still in his private
safe.

Then Mr. Stoner began to get busy on the
reception he was holding that night. For
certain reasons he wished the reception to rank
as one of the most successful ever held by a
member of the Potomac Club.

Ho worked all tlio day with the assistance of
his wife and Dorothy, and when he took a final
survey of his mansion before the guests were duo
to arrive, he confessed himself satisfied, and
Robert E. Stoner was a bard man to please in
theso matters.

Among the first arrivals was Henri D'Alour
and had Stoner listened to the conversation
between the Frenchman and his own butler, he
would have thought that the suspicions of
Gardner and Stevens were wefl founded.

As the butler took D'Alour's coat, he whis-
pered : " Gardner is here. Be careful ! "

"What influence has Gardner? Does he
suspect anything ? " said D'Alour, in a low tone.

Before the butler could reply, other guests
arrived, and D'Alour, with a pleasant smile on
liis face went to meet his host and hostess.

Stoner greeted him effusively, but Mrs. Stoner
gave him the most frigid bow, and then turned
away to smile on the guest that followed him.

D'Alour moved away, there was not a sign on
his face that ho had noticed the polite snub
administered by Mrs. Stoner, but ho was
thinking. " That woman suspects me. I must
bo careful."

He found Dorothy, but th*o girl seemed as
littlo pleased to meet him as her mother had
been.

" Why so cold, Dorothy ? " asked D'Alour.

" Can you ask when you failed to keep your
appointment with mo yesterday ? " replied tho
giil. " Wo American girls aro not accustomed
to being treated in that manner, if it is tho
fashion in your country."

" But I telephoned to you that I had a very

The Story tn winch Ge<
the WorU-F amous Boxer, plays the part
of Henri D Alour in the Ideal photo-play,
which will shortly be shown in all the lead-
ing Picture Houses in the British Isles.

important business appointment," protested the
young man.

Dorothy pouted, and remained silent.

" You know I love you, Dorothy," pleaded
D'Alour. " Why do you let such a small thing
as this come between us ? "

Dorothy's face brightened, and she was just
going to acknowledge that she had been in the
wrong when Gardner came up.

He bowed politely, but there was nothing
friendly in his voice as he tumed to D'Alour.

" Mrs. Stoner sent me to tell you she would
like to see you," ho said.

D'Alour knew that Mrs. Stoner had sent for
him merely to prevent him talking to Dorothy,
but he was obliged to obey the summons.

As soon as he had gone, Gardner turned to
Dorothy.

" Since this mysterious Frenchman has been
here you have made me play a very poor second
fiddle, Dorothy. You know my love for you is
sincere, and I can't bear to see you being fooled
by an impostor like D'Alour."

" Impostor," cried Dorothy indignantly.
" How dare you, Mr. Gardner 1 "

" I am only expressing the opinion of prac-
tically every member of tho club," said Gardner,
with a shrug. And then he poured into Dorothy's
unwilling ears a long story about D'Alour. How
no one knew whero he came from, and how no
ono trusted hiin except her father, and that he
was suspected of murdering Mr. Stoner's clerk,
and that he might bo arrested at any moment.

Dorothy was very indignant and defended
D'Alour valiantly, but at tho back of her mind
there was a worrying doubt. She had he^rd
from another source that D'Alour had been seen
near her father's ofhco just before tho murder,
and then he had not kept his appointment with
her, an appointment that coincided with tho
time the murder was committed. Again,
though he had made as his excuse for not
meeting her, a business appointment, ho had not
told her what that appointment wits, or where
lie had been.

But despite her doubts, Dorothy attacked
Gardner and defended D'Alour.

"You would not dare to say such things in
front of him," she said.

" Pardon me, Dorothy, but I should be only
too pleased," said Gardner coolly. " I love you,
Dorothy, and I mean that you shall marry me."

Before tho girl had any idea of his intention,
he had taken her in his arms and kissed her.

"How dare you!" gasped . Dorothy, as she
fought her way, out of Gardner's embrace.

At this moment D'Alour came up. Ho had
seen what had happened, and his face was deadly
pale.

His hands were tightly clenched at his sido
as he faced Gardner.

" Mr. Gardner has been saying awfid things
about you," said Dorothy, " and 1 dared him to
repeat them in your presence."

" I shall be only to happy to do so," sneered
Gardner, " though M. D'Alour loiows perfectly
well what I mean. He cannot have been deaf
to what all the club is saving."

Two bright rod spots burned in the centre of
tho Frenchman's checks a? ho half-raised his
hand. But with a desperate effort he controlled
himself.

" If we were not guests in this house," he
began.

But a derisive laugh from Dorothy stopped him.

" I hate a quitter," she said contemptuously.
".Why don't you make him eat his words?"
Before D'Alour could stop her she had moved
into the other room without so much as a back-
ward glance.

Gardner followed her with a triumphant
glance at the Frenchman.

"-You know where to find me when you want
me, Mr. D'Alour or whatever your name may
be," he called back.

For a moment, D'Alour stood on his toes as if
he would have hurled himself on Gardner.
Then he turned his back, and getting his coat
and hat left the house.

" I must steer clear of that man for a while,"
said the Frenchman to himself as he walked
home, "or ho will ruin all my plans."

The Fight.

BUT though D'Alour, for some reason, did not
wish to come in contact with Gardner,
"at least, for some time, the latter was
determined to goad the Frenchman to a fight.
His opportunities came tho next day.

It was the day for accepting entries for the
club boxing championships and there was a
goodly entry for all classes except the heavy^
weight section, of which Gardner was champion.

No member had put his name down to contest
Gardner's claims, and as the champion walked up
and saw the board he remarked in a loud voice :
" What ! Are you fellows going to give me a
walk-over ? "

" You're too good for us, Alan," replied one
member. " There's only one man who would
fftive any sort of chance with you. D'Alour,
there."

He pointed to the Frenchman w ho was seated
on a settee reading a paper.

" That fellow," shouted Gardner contemp-
tuously. " He's too yellow to fight. Even his
girl calls him a quitter."

There was a dead silence for a moment, and
then D'Alour sprang up and faced Gardner.
His eyes were blazing but his voico was calm ; s
he spoke.

" For some reason you appear determined to
pick a quarrel with me. I could not obligo you
last night, but I can now. You arc a liar and a
bully ! "

Gardner raised her hands, and was about to
strike the Frenchman who was already in a
posture of defence, when the secretary of the
club dragged Gardner back. " We eaiuiot allow
fighting in the smoke-room," lie said. " Look
here D'Alour. This thing has gone too far to bo
settled without a fight. Why don't you put
your name down to challenge Gardner, and the
thing can be carried out in a gentlemanly
fashion ? "

D'Alour stepped up to the board, and wrote
down his name.

" I thank you for the opportunity," ho said !o
the secretary. Then with a bow to the rest of
the company, ho walked out of the club.

The coming light was the one topic of con-
versation, not only in tho club but in tho town,
and heavy wagers were made on the result.
Both men went into strict training, and the
rival camps were watched closely by the club
members.

The general opinion was that D'Alour was
slightly the cleverer boxer, but ovcrybody
seemed to doubt his gamoness, and it was this
fact that made Gardner a strong favourite i.i
the betting.

Dorothy, who had been delighted when sha
had heard D'Alour was going to fight Gardner,
heard these doubts about the oonrnco of the
Frenchman, nnd it was this that prevented her
sending him a letter wishing him luck.

Picture Show, November 'AJtli. 19-0.

" He must first prove t lint he is game and no
quitter," sho said to herself. " 1 love him, but
1 will never marry a coward."

Had she but known, it was the lack of a -
letter from the girl he loved that- was likely
to loso D'Alour the fight. When the ought
of the fight arrived and she had not even sent
a short note to wish him luck, he could only
i.ssume that Dorothy had now no interest in
him at all.

Never had there been such a gathering at the
Potomac Club. Over two thousand men were
assembled in the big gymnasium when t lie prin-
cipals entered the ring for the big fight.

Gardner was the picture of a thoroughly,
trained athlete as he stepped over the ropes,
and his face was beaming with confidence as he
nodded to his many friends. In striking con-
trast was the appearance of the Frenchman.
True, he was beautifully trained, and his
magnificently proportioned body would have
served as a model for a fistic gladiator. Hut
that was all that could be said about him. He
was very pale and dejected, and there was a
listlessuess about his whole appearance that
suggested that bis heart was not in the fight.

Some of Gardner's friends wynt to D"Alour's
dressing-room just before they came in and
ottered him as much as five to one, but he
wouldn't back himself for a cent.

"He's a good boxer all right, but he hasn't
the heart for a real fight."

The words of the speaker were justified in the
first round. From the sound of tin' bell D'Alour
devoted all his skill to getting away from his oppo-
nent. He boxed like a man who is without hope,
and though he showed clever defence, he lacked
the necessary grimness to inspire confidence.

As the men went to their corners at the end
of the first round as much as six to one was
offered against D'Alour. but there were no takers.

While his chief second was attending to the
Frenchman, he kept whispering to him,

"Put some spirit into your fighting. " he
pleaded. " It was not in this way that our
glorious soldiers kept Verdun from the Hoche.
But D'Alour only smiled feebly.
In the second round Gardner tore into his
man, giving him no rest. Never had the club
champion fought more fiercely.

He showed his contempt for the Frenchman
by practically ignoring defence, taking what few-
punches D'Alour sent over wit !i a mocking smile.

"Pretty stuff," he sneered in one of the
clinches, but it don't hurt me. Von can box.
but you can't fight."

But though Gardner battled like a grizzly
bear robbed of her cubs, he could not land a
knock -out blow on D'Alour.

The Frenchman's defence was uncanny.
His judgment of distance was superb, and he
moved in and out with a grace that reminded
one of a panther.

Gardner was now Using a hard left dig to the.
stomach and a right hook to the jaw. but he
could not get the right home.

Every time he chanced his right D'Alour
anticipated the blow, and with ever such a
slight movement of the head, be made the
glove slip past the point of the jaw.

" That Frenchman has sure got it on Gardner
A-hen it comes to defence." said a veteran ring"-
fight reporter. " What beats me is that he
doesn't attempt to hand a few wallops himself."

"Too scared," remarked man a at'liis side.
" He hasn't got the grit to make a fight of it.
If he does Gardner will out him quick:"

"You talk like a babe to a doll." remarked
the veteran reporter. " I've seen every big
fight since James J. Corbett put it over John L.
Hullivan. and I guess i can see the yellow streak
when it's around. No, sir, that Frenchie's
not scared. If this were not a gentleman's
club I'd swear he was doped. He's fighting like
a man in a dream."

"Waiting to find a soft blow that will enable
him to go to dreamland." sneered the other.
" You can have seven to one to any amount if
you fancy that cur."

"I've just got five hundred that says you're
wrong." said the reporter, handing out a roll of
notes. " There's sure something wrong with
him, but it's not fear."

"Gee!. What a chnnce for a knock-out
uppereut." he muttered as Gardner, rushing in
wildly was cleverly7 side-stepped by D'Alour.
Having Gardner's jaw simply asking for a right
jolt to the point. Hut for some reason D'Alour
did not take advantage of the opening. The

round finished like tho first had done. Gardner
had done all the attacking and the only points
D'Alour had gathered were for defence.

Henri's Inspiration,

THE third round was a hummer from Hum-
merville. Gardner, net iim on the advice of
his seconds, Went out for a knock-out, but
the slippery Frenchman dodged all the hard ones,
(hough he took many which shook him up con-
siderably.

" Why don't you make a fight of it, you yellow
quitter t" hissed Gardner.

For an instant there came the lijrht of battle
in the eyes of D'Alour, as he shot out a left to
the face with the speed of a snake striking.

It caught Gardner full in the mouth, but
though it rocked his head he rushed in with a
hail of blows that forced the Frenchman to
the ropes. Even his marvellous skill could not
save D'Alour from the hurricane attack.

" I'll lay seven thousand to a thousand on
Gardner," said a member quietly, but no ono
took it. for at that moment D'Alour went down.

" Gardner's got him !" shouted one man.

" Silence !" roared the chairman of the club.
The Potomac, like the famous National Sporting
Club of London, tolerated no remarks between
the rounds, especially when one man was on tho
floor.

Hut though no one else spoke, everybody was
saying the same thing with their eyes.

D'Alour's hail that glassy appearance that
comes to a man whose senses are leaving him.
Hut tho instinct of the fighter came to his aid,
and he struggled up at eight seconds. Mechani-
cally he smothered, leaving no vital opening
for Gardner to get in a knock-out, and he was
still on his feet when the bell rang for the end
of the round.

While D'Alour's seconds were working like
madmen to bring their man round, the butler
from Mr. Stoner's mansion forced his way to
D'Alour's corner.

He held out a note to the Frenchman's chief
second.

"Give this to him. and he will win," he said.

" It is one certain thing he cannot lose it any
worse than he has done," said the second, as he
held out tho note to D'Alour.

The latter read it and his whole frame stiffened.
W in for me. — Dorothy."

Only four words, but if someone had given
I he Frenchman four bottles of the mythical Elixir
of Life, he could not have been more changed.

Gone was all Ins lethargy as he advanced at
the sound of the bell. Before he had been a
boxing machine, almost faultless in the science
of defence, hut totally lacking the fighting
spirit. Now he was like a tiger after its prey

Gardner never remembered anything abouS
that round. Ho saw two burning eyes set in a
white face; a lithe, panther-like body hurling
itself at him, then fell a fusillade of blo\n
that he never saw coming and could make no
ut t< nipt to stop.

Hail he been a rag doll he could have been in
more powerless against D'Alour's attack. II n
tried to clinch and he tried to •smother up, but
D'Alour literally punched out openings. Gardner
went down to a terrific right to the jaw. He
was dead game and got up at nine seconds, only
to be sent down with a short right to the chin
This time he stayed down. The fight was over.
D'Alour had won.

" Beckon I was right," said the veteran fight
reporter as he pocketed his winnings. " I would
sure like to know what was in that note. What-
ever it was, it did remove that dopey feeling.
Gee ! What a fighter when he started."

A Happy Ending.

SO far as his public utterances went, Mr-
Stoner had always set himself against tho
fight, but when he got the result, his eyes
twinkled and he went to his cabinet and selected
a cigar that he only smoked on special occasions.

It was strange, too, that he decided to give
another reception, and that he made a special
journey to personally invite D'Alour.

There were a tremendous number of guests and
D'Alour and Dorothy had little opportunity for
a long talk, but the young Frenchman managed
to tell the girl the thing that was nearest his heart.

" 1 love you Dorothy, as 1 have never loved
anyone before, and never thought I could lo\o
anyone. Will you marry me, dear ? "

I have never loved anyone else," murmured
Dorothy. "Even when 1 was angry with you
for not making Gardner take back his cruel
words, I knew I loved you."

" Listen, dear," said D'Alour lowering his
voice impressively. " There were reasons why
I did not wish to cpiarrel with Gardner. You
know now that those reasons were not fear.
But the same reasons why I did not wish to
fight Gardner, still control my life. 1 want you
to trust me. No matter how strange the cir-
cumstances are 1 want you to trust me. There
are enemies who seek to ruin me, but with your
trust f do not fear them."

There was no time for him to get Dorothy's
answer, for at that moment Mrs. Stoner called
her step-daughter.

One of the features of the reception was a great
swimming and fancy diving competition in a
magnificent sw imming pool in the Stoner mansion.
Henri D'Alour proved himself as wonderful

(Continued on page 8 I

GEORGES CARPENTIER as Henri D'Alour getting ready lor the fight, talking to his manager, Franjois
Deseanips, who played the part oi bis chief second in the film.

Picture Show, November 20/A, 1920.

"THE WONDER MAN." lCot7eed7.{rom

a swimmer as ho was a boxer, and he was the
centre of attraction amongst the crowd of
bathers. As he camo away from the pool to
change, the butler dropped a note at his feet.

D'Alour picked it up and when he got to a
quiet place he read it.

" Steven is warning Central Office about you."

That was all, but it caused him some con-
sternation to judge by his puckered brow. He
had promised Mr. Stoner to stay over night, but
ns soon as he could make an excuse he went
to his room, and sat there fully dressed. When
the guests had gone and the house was quiet, .
lie put on his coat and crept downstairs. As he
looked through the window be saw a number of
men coming to the house. r

" Detectives 1" he muttered.

As he stood in the shadow he saw Steven creep-
ing towards the library, followed by the butler.

D'Alour followed silently, and saw Steven upen
the safe and take out some papers. D'Alour was
about to move forward when the butler suddenly
appeared and pushing a revolver against Steven's
ribs, made him hand over the papers. The
butler glided away silently and as he passed
D'Alour he pushed the papers into his hands.

At that moment there was an alarm, and Mr.
Stoner rushed downstairs, followed by his wife
and others of the household. The detectives,
accompanied by Gardner, now came into the
library and turned up the lights.

".What does this mean ? said Mr. Stoner,
looking at D'Alour. " I thought you were going
to stay the night ?"

" I had urgent business," said the Frenchman.

" It looks as if there had been some very
urgent business here, Mr. Stoner," said Gardner.
" Your safe has been burgled."

As Mr. Stoner rushed to the safe, Steven came
up and whispered something to Gardner. The
latter nodded and turned to Mr. Stoner.

" I do not think it needs much more than
putting two and two together, Mr. Stoner, to
see who has robbed you," he said, looking straight
at D'Alour.

" I won't believe it," cried Dorothy, who had
followed her father into the library. " Tell
them it is not true, Henri !"

But D'Alour did not speak.

" I suggest you search him," said Gardner.

As he spoke he dashed up to D'Alour and
pulled the bundle of papers from his pocket.

" Will you be convinced now, Mr. Stoner ?"
lie shouted triumphantly. "These are the
French contracts which you placed in your safe
yourself. Do you need any further proof I"

Mr. Stoner turned to D'Alour.

" What have you to say J" he asked.
Nothing, except that I did not take those
papers from your safe," replied tho Frenchman.

" Guess you can tell that to the Chief at the
office," said one of the detectives as lie walked
up to D'Alour. " You're under arrest."
Just one moment," said a, quiet voice.

Standing in the doorway was the Chief of the
U.S. Secret Service.

" M. D'Alour is perfectly innocent," he said.
" We havo evidence that those papers were
ntolen from the safo by your partner, Mr.
Steven," he said as he turned to Mr. Stoner.
" One of our men, who has been employed as
your butler, saw him take them. Ho made
Steven hand them over, and then he passed them
to M. D'Alour for safe keeping. We have now
got all the evidence against Steven and Gardner,
who is his partner in this affair. For months
the two havo been robbing tho French Govern-
ment by altering tho contracts. There is also
now tho more serious charge of murder. We have
been a long time getting them, and I do not mind
admitting that wo might never have got them
had it not been for tho valuable assistance given
us by M. D'Alour, who, 1 may tell you, is a very
trusted officer of the French Secret Police."

It was then that Dorothy understood all, and
as the detectives left the house with Steven and
Gardner, she went up to D'Alour.

"1 see it all now, dear," sho said. " Please
forgive me for doubting you. 1 will never do
3o again."

" There will bo no need for me to be mysterious
any more," said her lover, lifting her up in his
arms and kissing her. " I shall never have any
secrets from you when you aro my wife."

THK END.

" MANACLED BY MONEY."

Splendid New Serial Begins Next Wtek.

SAILING SCENES.

JOHN BOWERS and HELENE CHADWICK in
Black Pawl."

JOHN BOWERS' great hobby is sailing, and
his friends always think of him as a sailor
first and an actor afterwards.
He revelled in his part in " The Black Pawl "
— a fine Goldwyn photo play, in which he
appeared with Helene Chadwick — for the com-
pany were a month or more on the high seas
aboard a ship called " Deborah " taking scenes.

First of all, however, John Bowers did not
want to go on board the " Deborah," even
though he was to play with lovely Helene
Chadwick. The reason was that Bowers'
beautiful yacht " Uncus " was expected any
day from New York, and he was so afraid the
" Deborah " would sail before she arrived.

." But think what fun you'll have with all of
us land lubbers," consoled Miss Chadwick.
" There isn't another man in the cast who knows
as much about a ship as you do." And John
Bowers admitted that there might be compensa-
tion in that.

When the ship encountered some heavy gales,
John Bowers was the envy of all the other
members of the cast, for an epidemic of seasick- '
ness prevailed ; and as only good sailors con-
tinue to go below for meals in times like these, (S)
Bowers had his
meals in soli-
tary state.

This seems a perilous position to HELENE CHADWICK, and she takes a long look backward before
following the lead oi JOHN BOWERS. These photographs were all taken on board the " Deborah,"
while the two were playing in " The Black Pawl." [Photot : Qohlwyn.

Tkture Show, November 20M, . 1920. ■ 0

CREIGHTON HALE ON HORSESHOE "LUCK."

CREIGHTON HALE is delighted because he He nails it to the door of his dressing-room First thing on leaving his dressing-room a ladder,
finds a horseshoe on his way to thej studio. "for luck," but nails it the wrong way up. used by painters, falls on his head.

While he is making up, a painter dabs
him in the face. He has words with
the painter, and the painter wins

Whew ! He is standing against a partition,
when a workman on the other side drives a
nail in his back.

: Mo more horseshoes for me ! " He throws [it out of the
window, hits his director on the head, and loses his joSj.
Never mention the word "lucky " to Creighton,

Picture Show, 9

OWEN NARES.

(Photo : Claud Harris.)

WHEN I went to have a chat with Owen
Nares shortly after a matinee last
Saturday afternoon, an immense crowd
i f fair admirers were wailing to. sco him- leave
t lie theatre.

" Quite enough to make 3 mere man enorm-
ously conceited," I
thought, »' but then the .
idol of ' Romance,'
' Mister Tom,' cannot
be called ' mere man : '
he's one of out very big
favourites, isn't he ? "

Ho was removing the
grease paint from his
fate as I entered his
rose-shaded dressing-
room. Ho laughingly
remarked ho couldn't
shake hands.

Owen Nares needs
no introduction to my
readers, but here is his
latest studio portrait.
He looked just as attractive in his grey dressing
gown as he does when wearing his immaculately
cut clothes in " Wedding Bells." He's realty tho
most, delieiouuly unaffected and natural of men,
which goes to prove it takes a lot of lionising to
spoil an English man ! '

Climate and Film Work.

WE'RE hiving another Summer," he re-
marked. " I'm glad my children aro
at the seaside. They love it ! " Fancy
Owen Nares with two sons !

From the climate wo talked about British
(ilins, for tho weather matters a lot when
filming outdoor scenes.

" Bad w eather is a financial consideration
w hen taking exteriors," he told ine. " The past
exceptionally wet summer has been very trying
to the British producer. In July you do expect
to get lino weather, but I had to journey to
1'oultor's Lock three times just to get three
flashes ! "

" Flashes ? " I queried.

" Those little episodes that last a second or
two on the screen," Owen Nares explained.
Three afternoons spent to get three seeonds on
the screen 1

The Discrimination of Cinema Goers.

" ' I '1110 public show a lot of discrimination now-
jl adftys about tho films they want to see,''
Owen Nares told me. " More and more
eare w ill have to be taken over the selection of a
book for a plot or a film scenario. I'eople soon
hIiow their disapproval if they don't like a thing
by slaying away.

" To be successful," ho thinks, " a film should
be artistic, and the people who produce it should
have a thorough knowledge of tho stage."

£2,000 a Year Expert.

HER1-. is a suggestion for film companies.
Mr. Xares think" a company who desires
to achieve great things should be prepared
to pay a good salary, say £2,0011 A year, to a
literary man w ho really knows books, and would
have expert knowledge as to what would make
u really good film.

" They've got to get good things on the screen,"
he declared, " and if
|\ they pay for them they
w ill succeed."

Big Stars and Big
Salaries.

ASKED Owen Nares
what he thought of
the big salaries that
were paid to stars
ncrosi tho " Herring.
Bond."

" .£20,000 a yoar is a
modest salary," -was
his answer ; and then
ho added, " a friend of
mine who is a cele-
brated surgeon, asked me t he same question not
long ago. and when I told him a .Mare I'icklord

or Charlie Chaplin would perhaps make four or
five times us much, he w as amazed, and told mo
that 'the most famous surgeon cannot hope
to make more than £15.000 a year.'" Mr.
Nares retort to this is worth repeating.

" Bui Charlie Chaplin is a surgeon to millions ! "

THIS PAGE IS ALL Al

LATEST PLANS OF PRODUCERS. STORIES FROM TM

ANN ELLIOTT.

And he's right. Laughter can cure many
ailments.

May Go to America .

"I HAVE been asked So act w ith the Talmadges,"
I he told me, " and D. W. Griffith offered me
a five years' contract. Financially, of
course, it's a big temptation. But I'm insular.
I prefer ray own country. All the same, I expect
I shall go for a time, in the dim future. But not
for some months."

By tho way, Constance Talmadge told me
when she was over here, how she admired Owen
Nares in his part in " Wedding Bells." She is
to star in this play in the film version.

Where Owen Nares Failed.

1 COULDN'T resist asking him about a
funny little doll on his dressing-table. " Is
it a Mascot ? "
Ho shook his head at my question, nnd'took
up the queer little grey wooden creature and
examined it.

" The understudies had a competition," ho
explained, " making butterflies ; you know the
idea. Dab various coloured splashes of paint
on a piece of white paper, then fold it, open it,
and there is your painted butterfly ! / got tht
booby prize because mine was the worst I "

An Open Window and a Fire.

I WENT to have a chat with Ann Elliott the
other afternoon. She was wearing a little
close-fitting nigger velvet hat, with a very
chic glace silk bow at the side. It. looked
tremendously becoming
on her fair, sunshiny
hair. We sat ljosido
an open window over-
looking Esher Com-
mon. At the same
time there was a bright
fire burning in the'
grate. There is some-
thing very luxurious
about an open win-
dow, and a fire close
at hand to take tho
autumnal nip out of
tho atmosphere.

" V\ hat made j on
take up screen work ? "
1 njked.

I SIR SIMEON
STUART, BART.

Miss Elliott laughed.

" One day, just for fun, a friend suggested
I should go to a film studio and discover if there
was any chance for me. I was in a mood for
adventure, and off we'went, straight away."

A Lncky Expedition.

IWAjS very kindly received at the studio,
which, by the bye, was Barker's," sho
said. " 1 was told that tho Eros Film
Productions were advertising for a star. I
casually left my photo behind, and I thought no
more about it.

" Three days after I was asked to go to tho
studio, and there I met the producer of tho Eros
Films: Two days after I was asked to go again
to tho studio to go through a test, but at tho
last minute I just felt I couldn't ! I telephoned
and said so. To my intense surprise tho pro-
ducer then came to see me, and offered me tho
part of leading lady in the Eros Film Pro-
ductions, and I signed my contract before ho
left."

This is Ann Elliott's photograph. Have you
seen her ?

A Baronet Film Actor.

i CALLED on Sir .Simeon and Lady Stuart the
other afternoon in their delightful flat
overlooking Regent's Park ; a romantic
spot, where squirrels make sport amongst the
greenery, and sable barues creep through the
canal that winds beneath the trees.

".Colonel Sir Simeon Stuart served in tho
divisional staff in France, and after heing slightly
nas«xl one day, when lying in hospital, he told
me that a brother officer said :

" What are you going to do when you get
home. Stuart ? Your military career is over."
" Oh. I don't know ! " said Sir Simeon. .
And then his friend chaffinidy retorted:

Piorvm Show Abt Scpplemext, Sovembet 20th, 1920.

HUSBANDS
ond'WlVES:

COME happy photographs of
screen heroes and the charming
women ro whom they are married

JOHN EMERSON
..m! ANITA I.OC~

HARRY CAREY snappe.1
with his charming wife.

I I

CHARLES HUTCHISON is married Herelsa VAf.Y/ "Gentleman Jim." as JAME.1
, holiday snapshot of Mr. and Mrs Hutchison v3*^v4 CORBETT is known to his friend*

u. nfT)>i

and

Mr». JAMES CORBFTT

WHEELER OAKHAM
is married
PRISCILLA DEAN.

Z A S U PITTS whh In
husband. TOM GALLERY.

NII.ES WELCH and his
(-harming wife. DELL BOONE.

Mr. and Mrs. MAHLON
HAMILTON at home

)a- 23/'/. W2C.

'UT BRITISH PLAYERS.

STUDIOS. AND GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR OWN STARS.

" You've Jone a lot of amateur acting. Why
don't you go on t ho Movies ? "

'* 1 never answered," Sir Simeon smiled, " but
as 1 foy. in bed, trailing to get wellj 1 thought of
my friend's remark.

" At Oxford I was ono of the founders of tho
University Dramatic Society , you know,
popul u ly known as the ' O.U.D.^.' 1 was thero
associated with Courchicr, Holman Clark, and
II. B. Irving."

In the Ranks.

SO when you left hospital," I prompted.
" 1 shaved off my moustache," Sir
Simeon eonflded. " 1 met Adrian
Brunei], the producer, and to get accustomed
to the camera I did crowd work. So I served
my lime in the ranks," he laughed.

"' My chanco came at last. My first part was
with the British Actors' Film Company, when I
played in ' The Usurper,' and a big part in ' The
Lady Clare' I also played father to Violet
tlopson in ' Snow in the Desert.' I have played
in ' The Auction Mart,' and ' The Face -\t the
Window ' for the British Actors'. ' The
Shadow Between,' and ' The Squire's Inherit-
ance.-' "

Sir Simeon has* just finished placing The
Dean, in a film of " The Headmaster," with
Cyril Maude.

All in a Row.

1 WONDER how many readers of Picture
Show were present at the Victory Carnival
at the Crystal Palace, not so very long ago ?
Bri fcish film stars

r m

j udged the costumes
— a very difficult task,
believe me ! So much
ingenuity was dis-
played, so much origin -
atity and beauty
galore !

" The Stars " got a
terrific reception.
Stewart Rome was
besieged with auto-
graph hunters, and
one fair admirer " just
died to tell his for-
tune." He wouldn't
tell me what she said.

MRS.

LONGFELLOW
COOPER.

LEWIS RANSOM, BARBARA HOFFE. and
LESLIE HOWARD in " £5 Reward."

Former War-
worker.

MISS JANE COOPER, who in private life
is Mi's. Longfellow Cooper, has been
chosen for a small part in Bryant Wash-
burn's " Road to London," and will be seen with
the S toll Company in " The Mystery of Bernard
Brown." During the war she was an inspector
of canteens. She gave up her place, Wakeswood,
St. Mary bourne, Hampshire for a hospital. I
think sho said it was at Christmas that the
fascination of the screen really got hold of her,
and now she declares it would break her heart
to give it up.

The English Harold Lloyd.

DOUGLAS MARSHALL, who plays the lead
in a Minerva comedy, is perhaps better
known as a singer, for lie is a great artiste.
He studied in Italy and is a Cambridge man.

" I hope to do a good deal of screen work
now," he told me. " I took it up for a joke at
first, but now I'm deadly serious."

When I asked him his favourite parts, he
confided that they were private comedy parts.
" They call me the ' English Harold Lloyd.'
I've been playing a lead in ' The Bump.' "

Three Minerva Film Comedies.

WITH real joy I watched three delightful
British comedies produced by Minerva
Films, Ltd., soon to be shown in the
picture houses. The author is A. A. Milne, the
famous contributor to Punch. The first of the
comedies, " Bookworms," shows Iict Cupid
chose the infectious and dangerous season,
" Spring," in which to plant his arrows not only
into the susceptible hearts of youth but also
into other more unlikely victims. Of course the
young man Richard (Leslie Howard) lives in
rooms opposite to Miranda (Pau'ine Johnson)
and falls in love with her.

r.ut her aunt Pri- illa (Henrietta Watson), ai
you "may guess, is of a serious lurn of mind.
There is a dragon, too, played by Mrs. K.
I'odevin, who keeps an ea^lo oyo on Miranda.
Poor Miranda is not allowed to indulge in
thoughts of Love's young dream. Richard
boldly visits .Miranda's
t'nelo Josiah {.Jeff
Barlow) and pretends
to bo an expert on old
books. All efforts fail.
At last Richard writes
an anonymous latter
begging for an inter-
view at a certain spot,
slips it in a book nt the
library for Miranda's
benefit. Uncle Josiah
finds it, and believes
it is for him. Then
follows the fun, and
Cupid makes three
couples happy.

DOUGLAS MARSHALL.

" The Bump."

" ' I 'UK Bump " is another sparkling comedy.

J[ Lillian Monfrcvor (Faith Colli ) likes to
jazz with Freddy (Richard Marshall).
F. W. Grant and Jane Cooper play Lillian's
parents. Lillian wants to meet a real man.
Then by artifice she becomes acquainted with
the great explorer John Brice (Aubrey Smith).
She listens breathlessly, to his stories and,
fascinated by his hair-breadth escapes, asks hirn
to tea one Sunday afternoon in Kensington.

On that particular Sunday Lillian, clad in her
Sunday best frock, gives strict orders that
nobody is to be admitted but John Brice !

She waits and waits and waits in vain ! And
Jolm Brice, who has threaded his way through
the mazes of forests is lost in the labyrinth of
London streets. Months afterwards, aged beyond
recognition, the explorer arrives in Kensington,
too late. Freddy has won !

"£5 Reward."

TOXY MARCHMOXT (Leslie Howard), the
descendant of a hundred earls, with
thousands and thousands at his bank
balance, falls in love with sweet Audrey Giles
(Barbara Holfe), the daughter of Farmer Giles
(Lewis Ransom). But Farmer Giles did not
believe in inherited wealth.

" Bring me five pounds earned by the sweat
of your brow," says he, " and then you shall
marry my daughter."

" Done," says Tony. " Here's my pocket-
book. Take care of my money until my return."

Tony thrusts aside collar and tie. Dons a soft
Blurt; a country hat, and togs to match. Cleans
out a pig-sty, sleeps in a barn. Sweat comes to
his brow, but only a shilling a day, or two-and-
six at most in his pocket.

Squire Giles loses the note-book, and offers
five pounds reward for its return. Audrey finds
it. Sends a discreet note to Tony, then goes for
a walk, and carefully places the note-book in the
road j of course Tony finds it, and eventually
wins fair Audrey !

Producer's Point of View.

ADRIAN BRUNELL told me the other after-
noon, that some ten years ago he used
to be a short story writer.
" By accident," he said, " I endeavoured
to write a film story.
Bitten by the desire
to improve something
that was a new and
great art, I took it up
more seriously as the
vears went on.

ADRIAN BRUNEL.

Highbrow Literary
Friends .

THEY dropped
me as a crank,"
he said, with
his slow smile. " I'm
afraid I was also re-
garded as one by my
new associates in the
film world, since I looked upon picture-making
from another standpoint than that of mere
money -making. Now that my ideal has
proved to be correct, strange to say, Art has
won the day in the Cinema."

Mr. Brunell is the proud producer of the Minerva
Comedies, the pictures of which vou see in the
centre of this page. Edith Nepean.

Picture Show, November 20th, 1920.

THE STORY OF AN EXCITING CHASE ENDING IN A STRANGE MARRIAGE

A Big Task.
"\Y7]3 mnst "rt tllosn papers back from the

\A/ Holman gang at all costs, and I have selected
* T you, Gordon, for the task. I'm taking a risk
Giving you the job over older and more experienced
men, so don't fail me."

The Chief of the Secret Service Department at
Washington looked hard at Cyril Gordon as he spoke,
as much as to say, " Here's your chance. If you
win through you're made ; if you fail you'll have to
wait a mighty long time lor another chance."

" I understand, sir, and I thank you for the
opportunity." said Gordon, a young man, with a
strikingly handsome face and the figure of an athlete.

" Now listen very carefully to what I am going to
say," went on the chief. " The Holman gang are at
the Hotel Cosmopolis, New York, that is, all of them
except a man named John Burnham, their expert
cryptographer. Burnham has been working in
London, and none of the gang have ever seen him.
You must go to the hotel and register in his name,
andjget your business over before Burnham turns up.
The gang can't move till Burnham comes, for the
documents, fortunately for us, were written in the
new cypher. You can have all the assistance you
Irish, but it seems to me that it is a one man job."

" I would sooner work alone, sir." said Gordon.
• " but if I need any help, I'll fix up with one of our
men in New York."

" Well, good-bye and good luck," said the chief.

" I feel that I will win through, sir," said Gordon,
as he rose to go. " May I again thank you for the
chance ?"

Cyril Gordon went straight to his flat where his
coloured servant brought out the travelling bag which
was always packed for such emergencies. When
lie arrived at New York his first task was to make
iurc that the real John Burnham had not arrived. A
look at the hotel register showed that Burnham
was not in the hotel, and with a chuckle of satis-
faction Gordon signed in the book " John Burnham.''

The hotel clerk looked up as he noticed the name.

" There's a telegram for you, and a gentleman
named Brady, who is staying with a party in suite
thirty-five, told me to let him know the moment you
arrived."

*' Thanks." said Gordon languidly. " You might
let Mr. Brady know I'm here. I'll be in the lounge
as soontis I have dressed for dinner."

Once in his room Gordon opened the telegram.

It was from his chief, and read : " Let nothing
hinder you."

A few minutes after Gordon had entered the
lounge a page boy brought him a note from Brady,
asking him to dine with him in suite thirty-live.

" This looks so easy that it seems to be too good
to be true," thought Gordon. " Here 1 have got a
cleat field before the real Mr. Burnham arrives. I am
invited to dinner by the head of the gang— second
only to Holman himself.

There can be wo question that they are all simply
crazy to know the real meaning of the documents
they have stolen. Well, if 1 can't get hold of the i
now I'd better leave the Secret Service and go in for
catching colds."

Cyril GordQD pulled out a number of papers and
selected one. It was written in the same kind of
cypher as the chief document he was out to recover,
and the plan he had formed on his journey to New
York was to substitute the bogus paper for the real
document. He knew Brady from a photograph that
had been supplied to him, and whe n he entered the
room, he quickly sized up the man he would have to
fear most. Brady was a strongly-built man, with a
lion-like head and a very Intellectual face. He was
not the kind of man who would be easily deceived,
i'he other three present (two women and a man) did
not impress Gordon as being dangerous.

Kemembering that the real John Burnham was
not known to the gang, Gordon stood hesitating
just inside the room as the waiter announced him.

" My name is Burnham," he said,

Brady was across the room to him In three quale
strides. He shot a swift glance at Gordon as he
gripped his hand.

" I'm Brady," he said. " Guess you've heard of
me from the old man V

" Yes, 1 was told you would probably be the one to
meet me," replied Gordon. " Who are the others ? "

" They're all with us, but they Ore not in Hotmail's
secrets. I'm running this show with you. I'll
introduce them, and then you needn't worry about
them."

Brady went over to the others and whispered
something. Thru he Introduced the others to
(iordon, and they all sat down at the fable'. .Nothing
was said till dinner was finished, and then Brady
brought out the stolen document and threw it over to
(iordon.

" Guess it's not much good to Holman till you can
decipher it," he said. "The other papers don't
count. They are merely ordinary busull ss letters,
instructions, and so forth, that wc found on JamlCSOD.
when we robbed him,"

Gordon looked at the paper closely for a few
seconds before he spoke :

" This is a new cypher to me," he said. " It will
take me some timeto decode it. The fact that it is in a
new cypher would indicate it is an important paper."

" If it is the thing Holman thinks it is, it means a
fortune to the lot of us," said Brady, take your
time with it. There's all the night betore us."

Gordon took up the paper and while he was
polishing his microscope with his handkerchief, he
knocked the paper off the table. As he bent down
to pick it up he substituted the bogus paper for the
original under cover of his handkerchief. Then he
went on making notes as if he was trying to decipher
the document.

He had arranged with one of the New York Secret
Service men to ring him up at a certain time, so as to
give him an excuse to get out of the room with the
document, and he waited with nerves on edge for
the message. At any moment the real John Burn-
ham might arrive, and then the game would be up.
At last, to his great relief, the telephone bell rang.

Gordon did not even look up. He appeared to be so
concentrated on his task that he did not hear the bell.

" A man named Fori**, wishes to speak to you,
Burnham," said Brady, who had answered the tele-
phone.

Gordon got up with a smothered imprecation.

" Yes. yes," he shouted impatiently, as he took up
the 'phone. " Burnham speaking. What is it you
want ?

" No, I can't possibly come. I'm very busy. I
told you I could not be disturbed till I was through.
Oh, in the lounge, are you. Right, I'll pop down !"

" It's my assistant," he explained to Brady. " He's
got scared about a Scotland Yard man who followed
us from London. Just nerves, that's all. Hold on
to this cypher, while I see him. I won't be a minute."

He lit a cigarette casually and strolled .out of the
room.

But he did not go to the lounge. He passed
swiftly through a side entrance and darted into a
taxi-cab he had ordered to be in waiting. Under the
seat of the taxi was his bag. and a hat and coat.

" Drive off IV he whispered to the taxi-man.

It took Brady exactly a minute to discover the
trick that had been played on him. In the sort of
game that men play when the losing end means
prison, and occasionally death, nothing is takefi for
granted. Brady glanced at the document, and at the
3rSt sight everything appeared to be right. He
was about to place it at the end of the table where
Gordon had been sitting, when he saw that the private
mark he had put at the right-hand top corner was
missing.

" Hocussed !" he shouted. " That guy lias rung a
cold deal on us. This paper is a fake. After him, the
lot of you."

Brady led the rush downstairs, but he got to the
front of the hotel only in time to sec a taxi-cab
dashing away at top speed, and u glimpse of Cyril
Gordon inside.

Calling for his car. which was waiting outside the
hotel, Brady whispered swift instructions to his
three companions. Then, as his car drew up, he
noticed a policeman on a motor-cycle.

" That man in that taxi ahead there is a criminal.
Follow him and I'll give you the charge against him."

The policeman looked in the direction pointed out
by Brady, and jumping on his motor-cycle dashed off
in pursuit.

Brady jumped into 1 1 car, and telling the chaffeur
to follow the policeman, he. banged the door.

The Wedding.

IX the meantime. Gordon was figuring out things with
a swiftness that was one of his greatest assets.
He had seen Brady outside the hotel, and knew
he was being pursued. Taking the cypher document,
from his pocket, he screwed it up and forced it into u
cigarette holder. Then he drew out a heavy auto-
matic pistol and awaited developments.

The next act in this quickly moving drama, was
stage-managed by strangers, and came as a sur-
prise to Gordon. He saw his taxi pulled up by u
crowd of men with white buttonholes outside a
church, and as the cab stopped one of the men took
him by the arm as he looked out of the taxi and
rushed him to the church. The men were all talking
at once and from what Gordon gathered, they had
mistaken him for the best man at a wedding, which
was due to be solemnised at that moment.

" You gave us a scare, old man." said the one who
had dragged him from the taxi. " You're five minutes
late as it is. Put a move on, old son, and explain
afterwards."

Gordon's brain worked a! the same speed that a
hawk strikes. He knew Brady was close behind
him. Here was a chance to slip Mm. Alter all.
there wils no harm in acting as a substitute for a best
man at a wedding.

Murmuring apologies for being late, he followed
his guide into the church. The bride was already
waiting at the altar. Her veil hid her face, but

LOIS WILSON and J. WARREN KERRIGAN
as Celia and Cyril.

Gordon got the impression that she was young and
pretty.

The man who had brought Gordon in went to the
clergyman who was standing on the altar steps, and
whispered something. The clergyman nodded under-
standing^-, and then, Gordon found himself by tin*
side of the bride.

The terrible truth flashed across his brain.

He was not. the best man, but the bridegroom.

He turned to explain, but before his lips had
framed the words, he remembered the instructiou
of his chief :

" Let nothing hinder you 1"

He cast a glance behind him.

Brady was sitting in a pew watching him with i\
hawk-like look. Behind Brady was the policeman
who had chased him on the motor-cycle. If he
hesitated now he was lost. Doubtless Brady would
have got some charge framed up against him that
would cause him to be arrested and his papers seized.
It might even be that the policeman was a bogus
officer in the pjiy of Brady. At all costs he must go
through with the ceremony and take the name of the
real bridegroom. Protected by that, he could defy
Brady and the Holman gang.

As in a dream he found himself responding to the
marriage service. At the proper moment, the beat
man — the man who had dragged him from the taxi-
thrust a ring into his hand. Mechanically he placed
it on the finger of the bride.

Then, with a curious kind of feeling that deadened
his usually quick-thinking brain, Cyril Gordon
realised he was married.

Married to a woman he had never seen before !

The final details of the wedding ceremony seemed
like a blurred nightmare to Gordon. He heard the
congratulations of the men, and' was kissed by a
woman who. he gathered, was the mother of the bride.
But amid all his bewildering emotions he was acutely
conscious of one thing. When he had touched the
hand of the bride to put on the ring, the hand was (is
cold as ice, and, as he caught a glimpse of her eyes,
behind her bridal veil, he saw In them such a look of
horror and loathing, that he had almost dropped the
ring.

What did it all mean ?

Why had not the birde recognised that he was not
the man she had promised to marry ? Why had the
mother andt he best man — in fact, all of those present
— not seen that he was not the real bridegroom ?

Could it be that he was the double of the man who
• ought to have stood at the altar ?

On the way to the vestry to sign the marriage
register he realised that he did not know the name of
the man he was supposed to be.

Taking the best man on one side, he whispered :
" Look here, old man. Being late has so upset me
that I've forgotten my name. Honest to death, I
have. It will come bark in a minute, but I don't
want to look a fool in the vestry. Tell me — who am
I ?"

" George Hayne, you fool ! Pull yourself together.
You've given enough trouble to ine as it is. What-
ever Is the matter with you ? Have you been
drinking ? "

" I did have one just before I left the hotel to
steady me," replied Gordon, seizing this explanation
as an" easy way out of his dilemma. " I suppose it
must have got in my head."

" I should say it had," remarked the best man
savagely.

Having signed the register, Gordon found him. ii
with the bride on his arm following the party from
the church. As he got outside he heard the policeman
say to Brady :

" Nice sort of fool you have made of inc. You UK1
me to follow a man who you want to charge as a crook,
and put me on to a mail who Is coming to church to
marry Miss Celin Hathaway, the daughter of one of
the most tony families in New York. Nice mess I
would have been in if I had not put a few questions.
I've a good mind to run you to the station. Beat it
before I do take you."

As Gordon entered a magnificent motoccar he
(Continued on page 18.)

Picture Show, November 20///, 1920.

THE EXPRESSIONS OF CHARLES RAY. (Exclusive to the "Picture Show. "J

CHARLES RAY.

The Star ^^ho ts Known as the ^Afonder Boy of the Screen.

CHARLES RAY is known in filmland as the wonder
boy of the screen. The reason for his convincing
portrayals of the honest struggles of a boy
against adverse circumstances, dreaming of conquering
the world and obtaining that which he most desires,
is because in these parts on the screen he is virtually
playing hia own life story.

• As you know, Charles bad a desire to act even
in his school days, and, despite repeated parental
objections, he determined to adopt a theatrical career,
and the story goes that Charles' father gave him
two years in which to make good on the stage, or to
enter a bank.

Six Parts a Day.

DETERMINED to attain to bis ambition, Charles
joined a troupe of travelling players, and for
two years played all manner of parts, from
musical comedy to tense tragedies. But those uncertain
days of hard work, many performances, and little
money were surely the basis for Charles' present
success.

He tells that in those days lie played as many as

six parts a day, and his only trouble was to make
himself look older than he was.

In Comedy Parts.

CHARLES RAY thought at this time that bis
role was comedy, and for a season he appeared'
with Chester Conklin on the music-hall static.
Chester Conklin, as you know, is one of the Mack
Sennett comedians.

It was Thomas Ince who gave Charles his first real
chance on ths films, but even then he appeared
in many plays before he found himself in the role
that he, as a born artiste, knew was to be his own for
always.

, It 'was in the picture called " The Coward," in
which he played second to Frank Keenan, that his
remarkable performance of the boy who was a coward
and, by force of circumstances, became regenerated,
that Charles Ray attained to the foremost position
he now holds in motion pictures. And in this part
Charles Ray proved to his screen admirers that he was
right when he thought that he shoutd play in comedy,
but not in rough-and-tumble comedies. How many
of us have seen a Charles Ray picture and
not laughed at his unusual adventures ?

An Inspiration.

CHARLES RAY'S, career is an
inspiration to any boy. He
known as " Charlie " by thousands
of people, and, by sheer pluck and grit,
lie has persevered for eight years, till
now he has reached the pinnacle of his
profession, for Charlie, as a boy, was
handicapped by a modesty and
diffidence that would have deterred
almost any other lad from mixing with
the hurly burly of life. But he de-
termined to make a success in life by
hard work and close study, something
which is not very popular in these days
of easy jobs and high pay, but Charles
Ray did not care for a meteoric success,
he wished it to be lasting. Those of
you who have seen him in his latest
photo-play to be released over here,
entitled "The Knock-out Blow," know
how he has succeded.

Of course, you know Charles Ray
is married, and has been for .two years.
Mrs. Ray is as pretty as a picture.
They live in the Beverley Hills, are
very domesticated, and prefer their
country home and a few friends to all
the delights of town life.

If you wish to write to him,
address your letter —
c/o CHARLES RAY PICTURES,
Fleming Street,

E. Hollywood,

California, U.S.A.

CHARLES
RAY at
Home.

Credulous.

Innocent.

Bashful.

Mischief.

Out of luck.

Just wants to know.

Picture Show, yovember 2Qtli, 1920.

THE BEST MAN.'

{Continued from
page 76.)

saw the policeman push Brady to one side as he went
towards his motor-cycle.

" I've lost the most dangerous man in the Holman
pang, but I've found a bride in a woman I have never
seen before," thought Gordon as he sat down beside
the woman who had so strangely become his wife.

The motor-car pulled up at one of the big mansions
in Fifth Avenue, and stilt like a man who is walking
in his sleep, Gordon led his wife up the broad steps.
A repast was laid in a dining-room in keeping with the
rest of the magnificent mansion, and Gordon found
himself at the head, of the table with his wife at his
side. He iistened to the speeches and congratulations
of the guests, and made a speech in reply. He felt it
was so halting and incoherent that those present
must have seen he was not the real bridegroom ; but,
to his astonishment, the speech was greeted with
loud cheers.

A glimmer of light came to him from a remark of a
middle-aged man who was evidently an old friend of
the family.

I haven't seen him since he was a boy, and I
suppose I'm the only one here, apart from the bride
and her mother, who ever saw him before. But I
never saw such a change in a man. When he went
away to England he was a waster. He appears to
have sown all his wild oats, and I think Celia will find
she lias got a good husband."

Further light on the reason why everybody had
accepted him as the bridegroom without any question
was forthcoming when the brother of the bride shook
liim heartily by the hand.

" I don't mind telling you, George," he said, " that
nt first I refused to be a party to this marriage. You
were a bit of a bounder when you went away, but
your stay in England has made a new man of you. I
thought when you did not turn up at the church that
you had left my sister in the lurch, but I'm only too
glad to apo'ogise, George. Mother and I are going
as far as Satterville with you and Sis. Then, when
you've finished your honeymoon, we'll be real pleased
to sec you at our place for a spell. I suppose your
luggage is still at the hote l ? "

Gordon remembered that his taxi-driver had
managed to think about transferring his bag from the
taxi to the car.

" All my heavy luggage is at the hotel, but I
brought enough things with me in a bag to last the —
er — honeymoon out. Your chauffeur put the bag
in the car, I think."

" AU right. I'll see to it," said the other. " Don't
you worry, old man."

A little while later Gordon found himself at the
station. His wife's brother bought the tickets, and
then Gordon saw they were for a place called Myrtle
Springs, a summer resort about a hundred miles from
Washington. From conversation with the best man
and his wife's brother. Gordon gathered that he was
going to a country cottage owned by Mrs. Hathaway.

" Well, since they are going to leave us at Satter-
ville," he thought, I shall have a chance to explain
to my unknown wife. It will be awkward, but from
what these people think of the real George Hayne,
she has been pretty lucky to escape getting married to
him. Anyway, she can easily get free from me when
she knows the truth."

Up to now he had not had a chance to have a real
look at his bride. But as she got into the carriage
after saying farewell to her friends, and pushed up
the veil she was wearing, Gordon saw she was a very
beautiful brunette, and with a strange feeling, he
realised that this girl, whom he had never seen before,
made an appeal to him as no woman had ever done.

It was a queer party that settled down in the train.
Tin biidc scarcely looked at her husband, and when
she did it was with fear in her eyes, though once
(iordon thought he caught a wondering look as
though she was asking herself If she might be mis-
taken. For the greater part of the way to Satterville
the. conversation — such as it was — was confined to
Mrs. Hathaway, her son, and Gordon. The bride
remained silent, looking out of the window with her
head averted.

" She evidently likes this George Hayne as much
as'the average citizen likes small-pox," reflected Cyril.

Ai|Satterville Mrs. Hathaway and her son got out.
Youiig Hathaway gave Gordon a cordial handsliakc ;
and Mrs. Hathaway, after tenderly embracing her
daughter looked up to Gordon as he leaned out of the
window.

There was a tense note of appeal in her voice as she
said :

" You will be good to my girl, won't you ? "

" I will be as good as a mother to her I " replied
the young man fervently.

As the train went on Gordon made an attempt to
explain to his bride, but the girl turned on him fiercely.

" Please don't speak to me," she said. " Surely
the least kindness you can do is to leave me alone."

" There's only one thing for me," thought Gordon.
" I'll slip of! the train at the first station we stop at.
Then write to her mother and leave a note for the
bride with the guard of the train."

He walked into the smoking-car and the train
slowed down, an attendant who answered the bell,
told him that they were held up with a minor accident
on the line ahead.

" This is where I beat it fast," thought Cyril.

nc scribbled a note, told the attendant to give it
to his wife, and hastily made his way out of the train.
But as he set foot on the platform he saw his wife
coining out. it was an awkward situation for both o£
thorn.

" I was just going to see if we could not get to
Milton, the next station, by road, and catch another
train," he said.

" That was my idea," said his wife. " I was just
coming to tell you. I know this district. It is not
far by road to Milton."

Gordon took her bags and they stepped out. Thev
had not gone far when Celia stopped with a little cry
of pain.

" What is it ? " asked Gordon tenderly.

" Something in my shoe," replied his wife.

In a moment he was down on las knees taking off
her shoe. There was a small, sharp stone in it which he
threw away. Then he replaced the shoe and bis
fingers lingered round the daiuty ankle as he did so.

Celia blushed, but the next second her lips tight-
ened, and she walked on in silence. Not before they
were in a fast train for Washington did Gordon again
speak to her.

" You needn't be afraid of me," he said. " I have
tried to explain, but you will not let me."

" You have been very land since we have been
married," she said ; " but I can't forget those
threatening letters and the price I have had to pay."

Gordon felt he owed it to himself to clear his name.

" Will you tell me all about it," he said. " I think
I shall be able to prove that I am not the man you
think I am."

And then the girl poured out such a terrible story
that Gordon could understand why she had regarded
him with loathing.

The Explanation.

THE real George Hayne held some compromising
letters of her mother's, and his price for silence
was that Celia should marry him. He had come
into possession of the letters in England, where.he had
been for many years, which accounted for the fact that
neither the girl nor her mother suspected he (Gordon)
was not the real George Hayne.

After she had finished "her story Cyril Gordon
turned to his wife. •

" You will have to trust me a little longer," he said.
" For the present I can only tell you that I did not
write those letters,- and that you will be safe with me.
Do you believe me ? "

" I do," replied Celia. " You are not at all the
kind of man I expected to meet."

On arriving at Washington Cyril engaged a taxi and
told the man to drive to the Grand Hotel. He in-
tended to leave Celia there white he wired to her
mother and went to the Chief to deliver the document.

But they had not gone far before Gordon saw there
was something wrong. The taxi was going at a swift
pace and in a contrary direction to that lie had ordered.
Gordon tapped at the window, and as he did so he
noticed that there was another man with the driver.
The second man turned, and motioning the driver to
go on, showed an ugly automatic pistol to Gordon.
The latter then tried the door, but found it locked.
" It's a trap," he said to Celia ; " but don't worry."
He settled down in his seat as if resigned and tl>cn,
when the man with the pistol was looking to the front,
he seized his suit-case and smashed it through the
front window of the cab. Before the astonished pair
could collect themselves, Gordon had snatched the

automatic, and placing it to the driver's head, ordered,
him to pull up. Commanding the men to get down
he left the cab In a side street, and engaging a taxi he
drove Celia to his rooms.

" You will be quite safe here," he said. " My
servant will look after you, and as soon as I come
back we will make arrangements for you to go back
to your mother. My secret business will soon be
finished now and then I can explain."

Gordon went straight to the Chief's office, and
when he had dropped the recovered document on
the chief's desk the old man shook him warmly by
the hand.

" I knew you would get there, Gordon. You can
take it from me that there's going to be a big job
in the Department as a reward for this."

" I'm afraid I've got a bigger one on at present,
sir," said Cyril.

Then, as quickly as he could, he told the chief
about his strange marriage, and wound up by saying
that he had fallen in love with the girl he had met
under such romantic circumstances.

" Then get back to her, boy, and tell her so before
she goes off to her mother." said the Chief. " And
let me wish you luck again."

When Gordon got back to his rooms he found
Celia holding a newspaper in her lap and staring at
the great flaring headlines.

" Capture of Noted International Crook ! " read
the top headline.

And then the story went on to say that George
Hayne. who had been working for an international
gang of criminals in England, under the name of
Burnham, had been followed to America and arrested
by Scotland Yard detectives for a crime known as
the Stanhope murder.

" I begin to see tilings clearly now," said Celia.
" You took Hayne's place at the Wedding, but why ?
You had never seen me before."

" Nor had I ever heard of Hayne before," said
Gordon ; " but I impersonated him under his other
name of Burnham. in order to get back a document
that had been stolen from the U.S. Secret Service by
his gang. The fact that Hayne. or Burnham. was
under arrest explains why he did not turn up at the
wedding."

Cyril then told Celia the whole story, and at the
end the girl said :

" It's a terrible situation for you to be married to
a girl you could not care for, but I'm very thankful
to you for saving me from Hayne."

But I do care for Celia, I love you," burst

out Gordon. " The only thing is that I cannot hope
to make you care for me."

" You haven't asked me yet." replied Celia, turning
away her head to hide her blushes.

When Gordon's old servant came back, some half-
hour later, he was given a long telegram to Mrs.
Hathaway. The major portion was an explanation of
what the reader already knows. But the last lines
were :

" Don't trouble to come for Celia. We are both
coming to you to consult you ou best place for our
real honeymoon trip. — Cyril and Celia."
(Adapted from the 'Ward's" film, featuring Warren
Kerrigan as Cyril.)

FILMS OF THE WEEK.

"Toys of Fate." Xazimova [Jury's).

THK great Russian actress, Nazimova. in
another of her remarkable films, n story
of gypsies, in which she takes the dual
role of Azah, -the gypsy girl, and Hagar, her
mother. This is a powerful, dramatic tale.

" The Shark." George Walsh (Fox).

A THRILLING romance of the sea. full of
exciting situations nnd stirring moments,
admirably acted by the athletic star and
a fine cast. Fights and a strong love interest
that will enthral young and old alike.

" The Counterfeit." Elsie Ferguson (Para-
mount- A rtcra ft).

AN original story of a girl who struggled to
save her invalid mother from poverty.
The beautiful star in quite a neV role —
Secret Service agent — in which she is called upon
to tackle sofe-cracking. Elsie Ferguson again
proves herself a great actress. Beautiful settings
of fashionablo Newport, U.S.A.

"A Bachelor's Wife." Maby Miles
Minteb (Astra).

A LIVELY story of mistaken identity with
the dainty little star in a delightful role.
As the young Irish girl who undertakes to
find the husband of her deserted sister, nnd
takes the baby with her, she achieves another
distinct success.

Bare Fists." Harry Carey (Oautnonl).
PICTURESQUE romance of the cattle
country, with the redoubtable Harry-
Carey as Cheyenne Harry.

"The Ghost Flower." Alma Rubens
( Western-Import).

A TALE of the intrigues of the Camorra.
with Alma Rubens as Guilia. a lovely
Neapolitan girl, relentlessly pursued by
a dreaded agent.

" Fools' Gold." Florence Turner and
Mitchell Lewis (Stoll).

A DRAMATIC photo-play showing how tho
happiness denied to a man and woman
was realised by their children, but only
after much sorrow and misunderstanding. A
mine disaster and n thrilling rescue are sensa-
tional episodes in this film.

"A Temperamental Wife." i

Talmadge ( Walturdaiv).

ATYPICAL role for Constance Talmadge.
This star, who is now in the foremost
rank as comedy actress, plays the part
of a wife who is jealous of her husband's secre-
tary. Most amusing situations ensue, and th»
whole play runs with »j dash nnd sparkle that
cannot fail to thoroughly entertain.

"The Girl of To-day." Cobinne GBrrrrrH
(Vitagraph).

THIS screen-play endeavours to show the
spirit of the girl of to-day. In thrilling
situations and stirring scenes are shown
the adventures of an American girl who is tho
means of unmasking a German spy. Cupid
takes a hnnd. however, with a Secret Service
lover, nnd, with tho exposure of the villain,
misunderstandings are cleared up and happiness
abounds. <j tn .. piCTl:RF. Sbq* •• Critic.

ricture Show, November 2Qt/t, 1920.

LEATRICE JOY "SNAPPED" AT HOME.

A delightfully unconventional photo of LEATRICE JOY playing with LEATRICE is very fond of music, and here you see her after a busy
a little friend, for whom she is cutting out paper toys. day at the studio, trying over a new song.

The piano is not the only instrument LEATRICE
JOY can play. Playing the banjoline is another
of her accomplishments.

A happy home snapshot of LEATRICE, taken in
the garden with her mother, who is very proud of
her gifted daughter.

LEATRICE JOY is a very versatile young lac'y.
She is almost as clever with the typewriter is
she is on the screen. /

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BEFORE HE BECAME A STAR.

Mr. Reeves Chats About Hts
Old Friend Charlie Cktfdin.

BILLIE REEVES.

IF you will cast
your mind back
to the early
days of tho motion-
picturo industry,
when the old Lubin
Company was one
of the important
factors in t he busi-
ness, you will recol-
lect that the star
comedian of that
concern was Billie
Reeves — B i 1 1 ie
Reeves the famous
music-hall c o m e-
dian, whose present
sketch, "The
Right Key but the
Wi"bng Flat," is
amusing audiences all over the country, and
whose name has been before the public since he
was a little boy. It was not of those Lubin
days, however, that Mr. Reeves chatted to me
the other evening, but of his more famous asso-
ciation with Fred Karno, and, through Fred
Karno, with Charlie Chaplin.

" Almost every day of my life," remarked the
genial Mr. Reeves, " some journalist comes to
me and says, ' Tell me about Charlie Chaplin,'
and I suppose you are no exception to the rule ? "
I did not deny the soft impeachment.

" Well, then " began Mr. Reeves.

" But first," I interposed, " I should like to
hear the details of your career prior to Charlie's
entrance to the story." _

And here ore the facts as Mr. Reeves gave
them to me.

An Interesting Career.

BILLIE REEVES, son of John Reeves, was
born with Lord George Sanger's circus,
where his father Was a lion-tamer and his
mother an equestrienne. At seven years old
he was in the ring himself. When he left
Sanger's circus he went to France with Bostock

and Wombwell, later joining tho Folies Bergfro.
Next came engagements with tho Fletcher
Troupe and " The Three Musical G's " ; seven
years on tho legitimate stage, and then an
engagement with Fred Karno.

With Karno Mr. Reeves remained for twelve
years, during which time he figured in such
successes as Hilarity," '' Jail Birds," " Early
Birds," a pantomimic version of " Oliver
Twist," and " Mumming Birds." This famous
sketch was played for two yoars in England
before being sent to France, and it was whilo
it was on at the Oxford that tho lato Chas.
Frohman saw it, and announced his intention
of sending it to America. As " A Night in an
English Music-hall " it played in the States from
coast to coast — a distance of over G.000 miles —
one of its landing-stages being at Hammer-
stein's, on Broadway, where it stayed for four
consecutive months. Alfred Reeves was a promi-
nent member of the troupe, and it was with his
brother that Billie went to America, performing
at a salary of £40 a week.

At the end of three years Alfred Reeves
brought tho Karno troupe home, but his brother
remained behind, having accepted an even more
lucrative engagement in the Ziegfeld Follies,
with which he remained for four years before
joining Lubin and appearing in films.

Enter Charlie.

WHILE Billie Reeves had been playing in
America, Charlie Chaplin had been fill-
ing his place in the Karno company at
home, figuring in such Karno classics as
" Casey's Court " and " The Football Match,"
so when it was decided to send the " Night in
an English Music-hall " troupe out to America
again, Mr. Karno instructed Alfred Reeves to
take Charlie with him.

" Charlie played my old part in America,"
Billie Reeves told me, and ' got away ' with it
splendidly. In 1911, when my brother returned
once more with the troupe, he left Chaplin
behind, and it was then that he joined the Mack
Sennett forces. He had been getting £8 a week

IN THE DRESSING-ROOM.

The Fascination of trie Short Skirt Its Effedt Uf>on Footwear: —
Its Smartness and Its Pitfalls — The Picture Girl s Office Frock.

THERE is a rumour afloat that skirts are to
be decidedly longer during the coming
winter. This news will cause a flutter of
distress to the majority of women, for very few
wish to -return to the skirt of ungainly length
thai nearly dragged the ground, and hampered
all the movements into the bargain. The short
skirt is such an approved favourite, however,
that I fancy the design of greater length would
have a distinct difficulty in finding favour in
milady's eyes.

Attention to the Feet.

WHETHER tight or full, tho skirt that is
cut a dozen inches from tho ground is
as becoming as it is hygienic, allowing
as it does for perfect freedom, and keeping the
lower part of the frock free from dust and dirt.
But more important still is the fact that it has
taught the British girl how essential it is for
her feet to bo always perfectly groomed and
ingrained into her the desire for smart shoes and
nice stockings. For it is an undisputed fact
that more attention is being paid to footwear,
now than a few years ago. Then it was not an
unusual thing to see a girl wearing shoes that
were heavy and ungainly in make, and that
were down at heel into the bargain. Not so
now, however. Every girl you pass in the
street steps forth with smartly clad feet peeping
from beneath a short, neat, little skirt.

The Tango Style.

UNFORTUNATELY, the dressing of the
feet is in some instances very much
overdone, but happily this is not often
the case.

Black shoes with lacings of ribbon tied up the
leg and light-coloured stockings worn out of
doors are in extremely bad taste, and spoil any
other attempt the wearer has made to look
smart in the way of clothes. Ribbon lacings
are certainly effective for evening wear ; but

even then the whole set
— shoes, stockings, and
lacings — should be of the
same colour if they are
to look pretty. Dark
lacings on light stockings,
are fatal for showing up the
size of the feet. Not that
girls are as stupidly sensi-
tive over the size of their
feet as they were years
ago. They vill not sacrifice
comfort for the sake of
making their " four "
.foot squeeze into a " small
three " ; but at the same
time they will be wiser to
avoid any touch of undue
conspicuousy.

The fashion for coloured
shoes is a delightful one,
and one that has caught on
considerably. Soft greys,
fawns and browns all look
delightful, both in sued'o
leather and antelope ; and
if worrrwith a costume of
the same bus, add just tho
right touch of smartness to
the toilette.

A Word of Reproach.

HERE I must add a
word of reproach to
the wearer of suede
shoes who forgets to clean
them regularly, thinking
that their texture does
not show the dirt. Per-
haps it does not at first,
but very soon the shoes
show signs of neglect, and

No. 28,587.
A smart frock
of Navy gabar-
dine, with trimmings of
braid, specially designed
for the Picture Girl by
the Editress of " Home
Fashions."

with Kama's company, but he jumped to £110
with Sonnctt, w ith whom he stayed a year. Then
ho went to another company for £200 a week,
during which time ho played with Marie Dressier
in ' Tillie's Nightmare.' Mario Dressier had the
stellar part, but when tho film appeared the only
star was Charlio. Ho just romped away with
the honours.

A Little Sidelight.

" I SHOULD liko to give you a little sidelight
| on the kindness of Charlie's nature," con-
tinued Mr. Reeves. " My present sketch,
' Tho Right Key but the Wrong Flat,' has been
performed all over tho world, and two years ago
I took it to tho Orpheum, Los Angeles. When I
arrived at the film city whom should I find
awaiting me but my old friend Charlie, now
grown a rich and successful man. There he was
with his motor-car waiting for me, and he and
my brother Alf — now his business manager — gavo
me a royal welcome. It does my heart good
now to think of the warmth of Charlie's greeting.

" At the Orpheum Elsie Janis and I were tho
chief turns, but it was for me that Charlie and
his friends bought the house out tho first night.
I played there for two weeks, but spent a month
in Los Angeles altogether, and had the time of
my lite. Charlio invited me down to the studio
with him, and took me round the beautiful
country and to Catalina Island, and altogether
gave me a royal holiday.

"The Best Little Fellow Alive."

" X/ES," concluded Mr. Reeves, " Charles
J Spencer Chaplin is the best little fellow
alive, and the charming thing about
him is that he has no ' side ' whatever. He is as
free from that as in the days when he had but
£2 10s. a week, and that is more than one could
say of some great men."

"And how about your own film career ?" I
queried as I rose to take my departure. " Shall
we see you on the screen again ? "

But in view of his present vaudeville activities,
Mr. Reeves could not say.

May Herschel Clarke.

to the critical eye appear no better than a
dusty, dirty pair of black leather.

It is not often that new fashions in footwear
make themselves especially noticeable, but this
year must be an exception to the rule, for all
kinds of new and wonderful styles have crept
into favour. First of all tho ankle strap, then
the shoe with banded instep, and now all kinds
of wonderful sandal -shaped styles. All becoming
in their way, but to look well must suit the shape
of the foot they adorn. The slim-ankled maiden,
for instance, does not become the shoe with the
ankle-strap, while the sandalled stylo certainly
looks most ugly on the fat foot, that bulges
through all the various straps of leather.

The long slim shoe is the predominant fashion
just now, and very pretty it looks. But woe
betide the girl with the wide foot who affects
this style. It will mean endless agony to her,
and perhaps be the cause of many unnecessary
corns and bunions. She will be wiser to stick to
the square-toed shape, leaving the slim style
for her slender-footed sister. The girl who will
be fashionable and buys every shape that comes
into fashion is indeed foolish, for as she dons a
different -shaped shoe each day she does endless
harm to her feet, and paves the way for untold
agonies in the future.

The Picture Girl's Office Frock.

WITH her usual regard to neatness and
economy, the Picture Girl has chosen
ordinary Navy-blue gabardine for her
office frock for everyday wear. It looks particu-
larly well, too, with its trimmings of wide black
silken braid.

In design it is novel with its smart collar that
rolls high to the neck, although, of course, this
can bo turned down if desired. It is also
fashioned with the new long-waisted effect, the
bodice being joined at the hip line to tho skirt,
while the fulness at the waist is drawn in by a
belt. The sleeves are set into ordinary arm-holes.

Patterns of this frock can be obtained in 22,
24, 26 and 28 inch waist sizes, from the PICTURE
SHOW Pattern Dept., 291a, Oxford Street,
London, W.l, for Is. each. P.O. to be made
payable to the PICTURE SHOW.

A Dresser.

Picture Shoxc, November 20t!i, 1920.

IF you want to know onythiricr about Films or Film Playenr

Beauty Midway
Between Two
Uglinesses,

EASTERN&WESTERN
IDEALS.

" \/IRTUE," says Aristotle, " ia a mean
* between two vices."

Thus generosity is a mean between foolish
extravagance and avarice ; modesty a mean
between prudishness and wanton-ness ; a good
comedy a mean between a revue and a pro-
pagandist play.

I suppose the reverse is true, i.e., that a vice
is a' mean between two virtues. But there is
probably something wrong in the assumption.
Like the converse of " All cabbages are vege-
tables," which is " All vegetables are cabbages,"
and which landed one in a logical muddle in
one's schooldays.

The axiom holds good when applied to
beauty ; a beautiful figure is the mean between
the ugly extremes of leanness and obesity. A
beautiful face has neither too much nor too
little hair upon it — crudely, in a woman, the
eyebrows and lashes are luxuriant, yet no
downy growth blurs the outline of cheek and
upper lip. Our convention which demands that
women should have long eyelashes but no
moustaches would probably seem curious to
certain savages who shave eyebrows and
lashes, and. admire moustaches in women, just
as our partiality for white teeth would astonish
the Hottentots who prefer them black or
yellow !

In Europe, however, and among the civilised
Eastern races, the beauty of long curling eye-
lashes and delicately marked brows cannot be
over-estimated.

What glorious lashes one sees in the East ;
especially among the Greek girls in the native
quarter of Cairo. The tendency among such
beauties to grow superfluous hair on the face is
combated by' the razor or by depilatory paste,
recipes handed down sometimes from the daj's
of Cleopatra or the glory of Carthage.

In England women are beginning to realise
that neither shaving nor electrolysis are ideal
for removing unwanted hair. A method which
is steadily gaining in popularity is that of treat-
ing the superfluous hair with a paste made of
pure pheminol and water. The paste is spread
rather thickly on the hair, and allowed to dry
thoroughly. The hair is completely destroyed
and can then be painlessly removed with a
very blunt knife or a piece of cardboard.

The application of a little tckko paste is
recommended after the hair has been removed
with the pheminol.

The trouble with most English women, how-
ever, is not that they have too much hair on
their face, but too little. Scanty eyebrows,
and poor, light lashes are common in this
country, and often render an otherwise charm-
ing face insipid or even plain. It is a good and
safe plan to encourage the growth of brows and
lashes by the occasional application of a little
mennaline. Mennalinc is rather a pleasant
substance to use, and it has the advantage of
not only increasing the growth of the eyelashes,
but also of giving them a delightful inclination
to curl at the tips.

The eyes owe half their expression and charm
to the lashes surrounding them, just as the face
owes so much to its frame of hair.

PARKER BELMONT'S C'LVNOL BERRIES FOR
OBESITY. (ADVT.)

THE CHARM OF ROMANCE.

WHEN everything has been said for and against
the film serial, the comedy, and the domestic
drama of the familiar type, there remains the
simple romantic story with its attraction over all
others as powerful as before. It is the one thing upon
the screen of which the public is never likely to tire,
whatever other changes they may demand in their
entertainment. Yet the reason lies neither in the
production nor in the telling of this particular type of
story, though both these things may undoubtedly
contribute much to its success. It is in the heart
that one must seek it. For however changeable men
and women may be in their affections, the love of
romance in each is the one human characteristic
which is never wholly removed even with the passing
of years.

It is trne that the Darbys and Joans of to-day will
derive their pleasure in looking back on the romance
of their past. But there will be the proof, at any
rate, that they have altered but little. Naturally with
youth it will be otherwise, for it has both the present
and the future, and what wonderful gifts may not
either contain ! And it is on the screen that both age
and youth desire to see more of romance in pictures.

Women are essentially the romantic sex, and it is
they who comprise the major portion of the audiences
at most picture theatres. They may not go there solely
to see romance picturised, but they certainly like it
best. The girl sitting by her lover's side in a cinema
finds her greatest happiness when following the hero
and heroine through a romantic story. She can
understand something of their joys ; she can sym-
pathise, too, with their hopes and desires. And there
is the equal pleasure it affords the girl without a hero
of her own and the woman who is married. For each
of them romance on the screen has something to tell
them of hopes not yet realised or of days that have
passed.

Were producers to give still more of romance they
would delight the public as never before. It's a
subject which cannot be exhausted, and the charm of
which will always remain fresh and sweet.

THE EDITOR.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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goes to press a considerable time before publica-
tion, letters cannot be answered in the next issue ?
A stamped and addressed envelope must accom-
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letter should give the full name and address of
the writer (not for publication), as no anonymous
communications can be answered. Address : The
Editor, "Picture Show," Room 85, The Fleetway
House, Farringdon Street, London, EX. 4.

" Gerat.dine " (Lclgh-on-Sea). — Your writing
seems good enough, Geraldinc, but are you sure you
signed your full name each time you wrote asking
questions ? (Irace Darmond was with Wallace Reid
in " The Valley of the Giants." Some of Ethel
Clayton's films are: " The Girl Who Came Back,"
" The Whims of Society," " Broken Chains," " Mag-
gie Pepper," and " Love's Bargain." There is no
charge whatever to be answered on this page, so you
are welcome.

" Ida " (Bradford). — I am pleased you have
written, for now you can convince your friend that
you have courage, and also that I am a most harmless
specimen. Madlainc Traverse was born in 1887,
but Violet -Hopson does not state her age. A Una
Taylor is in her twenties. The first named artiste
has dark brown hair, hazel brown eyes, and is 5ft. 9in.
In height. Henry Edwards is a bachelor and has
brown hair and grey eyes. Lew Cody was the
villain in " The Bride's Awakening."

" North Country Lass " (Carlisle). — Only one of
your questions has white hairs, for it has been answered
on this page so often. " Is Stewart Rome married ? "
is now among the ancients. Cameron Carr was in
" In the Gloaming," and Gerald Ames played in

" A Turf Conspiracy." Yes, Jack Holt was opposite
Enid Bennett in " A Desert Wooing." Gregory
Scott is single. I will try and oblige about Peggy
Carlisle as soon as I know.

I " TONY " (Dublin). — So you'got your sister to start
off your letter by saying I ought to have a pet name,
and having gained courage after that " blarney," you
sat down and wrote the rest of the epistle. However,
I th, ink you both for the compliments sprinkled
therein. Ethel Clayton was born in 1890, but her
birthday has not been revealed.

F. J. (Clitheroe). — Of course, you arc welcome
again. You must have misread my answer in the
issue for November 1st. as you wil see that the replies
are nil differently numbered, which means they refer
to different questions. Lew Cody, of course, is not
married to Ca»«iel Myers. So you arc quite in love
with Bruce Gordon. He will have to tell us more
about himself. In " A Little Child Shall Lead Them,"
the others with him were Queeuie Thomas, Walter
Timms, and Adeline Hayden.

" Pip " (Leatherhead). — Ye?, there has been an art
plate of Alma Taylor. Some of thB popular artiste's
films are : " Oliver Twist," " Heart of Midlothian,"

Comin' Thro' the Rye," " Boundary House."
" Touch of a Child," and " The Nature of the Beast."

" Marguerite " (Fishbourne). — Art plates ot
Marv Pickford have already been given away with
these issues : Mav 3rd, 1919 ; Oct. 25th, 1919 ; Dec.
20th, 1919; and March 13th, of this year. The last
one was a big double one of her. Peggy Carlisle ha»
appeared in " Comradeship," which was her first
picture, and also in " God's Good Man," " The
Keeper of the Door," and " Rocks of Valpre."
William Russell. Lucille Lee -Stewart, and Robert
Cain in " Eastward Ho ! "

G. G. (London, E.C.). — Burton Law was the artista
in " The Little White Savage." Why can't yon
write to your favourite through this office ?

" Tiny " (Ferry-bank); — If your sister has had a
photo from Mary. I am sure she would not disappoint
you, Francis MacDouald was born iu Bowling
Green, Kentucky, twentyjiiine years ago. His wife
is Mac Bush.

" Spasms " (EarlsfieldV. — Yes, I get them, too —
the merry kind, of course. The part of the son of
Lord Broughton in " General Post," was taken bv
Colston Mansell. No, Gordon Griffith is not related
to the producer of the same name.

N. A. M. B. (Worthing) and " Janet " (Balham).—
"The Gardeu of Allah was filmed some time ago.
and the hero and heroine in it were Tom Santschi and
Helen Ware.

" Mamik " (Greenock). — I conld spare you anything
except money. Violet. Hopson and Stewart Rome
are not married tovach other. That little bit ought
to be learnt by heart. True, Nicholas is her very
own son. and a clever one, too. Nay, Mamie. Katherine
MacDonald is not a Scotch lass, for she was boru in
Pittsburg, U.S.A.

T. A. K. (South Gosforth). — So your brother and
you have been having an argument lasting over a
week. I hope this will find that peace has been
declared. Anyway, he appears to take a lot of con-
vincing, for you were easily right. H. S. Northrup
was the villain in " The Way of the Strong." and he
is certainly not the same person as William Conklin.

" Nosey " (Manchester). — Fancy calling yourself
that, "fwas Alan Forrest in " Rosemary Climbs the
Heights " who captivated your fancy so. In " The
Rock of__Ages,"— the part of Father O'Flynn was
taken by' Bernard Vaughan. Campbell Gillian was
the artiste in "Caste" in which the lead was taken
by Sir John Hare.

" Picture Mad " .(Southwold). — Alma Taylor Is
single, and Clara Kimball Young is not married now.
Kathleen Clifford was twenty-six oil February 10th
last, and was born in Charlottesville. She has light
brown hair, brown eyes, and is an inch over 5 ft. Shu .
was partly educated in this country. Ruth Clifford's
real Christian name is Catherine. She was born in
1900. Marie Walcamp, who Is the wife of Harlan
Tucker, was born on July 27th, 1891.

(Afore atfwsrs on next page.)

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Answers to Correspondents fl^u;;:

•• Carol " «Jt. Berldianipstod).- -So you kpflw me
to bo " a man nil over ' r.y my replies .' 1 confcssto
it hunil.lv. But yqu cvidteutiy take me good-naturedly
which is'the spirit also In wtok* 1 write. \our eMfi-
£c i n VqulS Bond, but though it has been eon-
S already, it is the apace that's lacking A bo
same, 1 want vow an.! every reader, ta t4et, to let mo
have opiuioiw about the Am W £
wanted and 1 will deal with the most toterwttngoJ
such opinions ta editorials. Gwy^e Hcrbertwa* bam
IB Suskv. a must kxata the exact spot tatW), »Bd
may be seen in " All s Button." Her other fflgK are
•• Boundary House/' " The Kinsman and **m-
slon." Yes. Ivy Duke was in the »t«gc play J "c
Maid of tlie Mountains."

" FBRNOH Gms" (Liverpool).— Pleased to hear,
from vou. and i£ it is art ptateB you wan., one ol
Marv Pi.kford w.vs given away with i the ismk lor
Mar.h 13th, and one of Mary Miles Mmter wit lit he
"P S " for August Hth. Harrison Ford was with
Vivian' Martin in " You Sever Saw Su. h a < .irl and
Vernon Steele in "The Witness for th" Defer., e
Yes, your favourites may- oblige yon it you write to

thFUB. (Slicffl.ld) and others - -With regard to the
cover of the issue for October 9»i the photos of he
sisters Talmadge, reading from left to right wi n
those of Natalie, Norma and Constance. This «il
help to subdue all the fierce arguments which Have

,6 if g (Antwerp).— Cheyenne Harry or Harry
Care'v as his screen admirers also know him, was born
in Sew York. He appears to have tried his hau l at a
good many things, ranging from cowboy to his present
occupation. There is 6 ft. of him, surmounted bv
Monde hair. His life story appeared in the J»"^
Cinema " for May 15th. _ •

" NOR \niscriT " (Stonebridgc Park). — I hope it
ta=tes nice, anyway, though 1 can't say I have heard
of a biscuit like that before. James L. Crane, who is
the husband of Alice Brady, was born m Bantoul. ill.
His height is 5 ft. 11 ins., and he has black . hair and
grey eyes. Yes, he has played opposite Billie burke,
as weli as his wife, in some of her pictin-cs. Norman
Kerry, please inform your sister, was born in Rochester,
New York, end has dark' hair and hazel eyes. In
height he measures 6 ft. 2 in.

" Babbits " (East Ham).— The ages you want are
Virginia Pearson, thirtv-two ; Vivian Martin, twenty-
two : and Bnth Clifford, twenty. Viola Vale, was
opposite Earle Williams in " The Hornet's Nest.
(More answers next we>.k.

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Famous Readers of tke " Ptdture
Skow.

No. 46 — SINCLAIR HILL, j

ONE of the youngest producers in the kin?-
dom is photographed above rending- the
Picture Snow. It was Mr. Hill who pro-
duced the '' Tidal Wave," and he has just com-
pleted "The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown."
the Stoll picture version of E. Phillips Oppen-
lieim's famous novel.

Now that we have Edith Nepean on our stnFfS
and two page3 devoted weekly to British pro-
ductions we shall learn more about the talented
artistes in the British field of film producers.

Fay's Own Paragraph.

I CANNOT resist squeezing in a little word
about my own paper here, for I've something
very attractive this week for you in the
"Girls' Cinema." Pauline Frederick has sent us
a letter telling us of the men who have made
love to her — on the film, and I've managed to
get a number of Confessions out of James Knight.
A splendid long complete story entitled " Out
of Luck," and pages and pages of interesting
reading profusely illustrated. Get your news-
agent to save you a copy, for seen once you will
always want it. It is a fine companion paper
to the Picture Show.

The Delight of Real Boys.

BY the way, did I mention last week that the
"Return of Tarzan " is now appearing
serially in the " Boys' Cinema " ? Also
that Tom Mix is writing some thrilling Wild
West yarns, and Big Bill Duncan is editing a
page, and telling us of his early struggles and
ambitions in this splendid paper for real boys.
Have you vet seen it ?

A Power for Good and Evil.

IN this issue T)f the Picture Show besrins our new
serial, " Manacled by Money," a splendid
story proving that gold may be a great
power for evil as well as a power for good.
Telling how money may tie a man's hands as
tightly as any bonds forged by" poverty. This
story by the author of " Destiny," is the most
fiseinating y,et from that writer's pen. Do
not miss it.

News of Mary and Doug. . —

THE latest message I have received from Los
Angeles says that Douglas Fairbanks is to
make two productions by December 1st,
•and on .December 15th he and Mary Pickford
will, start for a trip round the world. Mary
Pickford is also to make two pictures before
sailing.

• Their present plans are that they will make
the journey to France by way of Honolulu,
■lapan, China. India, and Egypt. Arriving in
France, Douglas Fairbanks will make two
pictures, one of which will be " The Three
Musketeers," and Mary Pickford will make one
picture.

PKc^arar^^ParaQ'raDK? cP Picture?, Phy^ an.-i Players

Gloria the Second.

GLORIA SWAN'SON SOMBRON the
second arrived in Los Angeles the other
evening, bringing with her much interest
and excitement in the film world. She is a film
baby, her mother being no loss a person than
Gloria Swanson, her father Herbert Sombron.
Little Gloria weighed !H pounds, and is, accord-
inc to information from film circles, the image
of her beautiful mother.

— — ■

Mae to Desert the Screen for a While.

MAE .MURRAY is now back at work after
a visit over here with her director husband
— Robert Lennard. She has started on
tho production" of a film play straight away,
though there is a possibility that she may leave
the screen for a while, as a well-known theatrical
manager has an option on her services to play
for him. providing he can find a play to fit her.

To My Six-foot-three Male Readers.

ARE you six feet three, male gender '! If so,
communicate with Betty Blythe, who is
residing at the Hotel Hollywood, Holly-
wood, California. Miss Blythe tells me she is
seeking a permanent lovor, for screen purposes.
He must be of the rugged, athletic type, to
match his height ; and must be able to swim,
ride and drive a car, and also look intelligent.

Miss Blythe has just completed the photo-
play, adapted from the famous novel, J Nomads
of the North," and is now enjoying a holiday,
while her director looks for the great lover.

From Choir Boy to Star.

IT is not generally known how Hugh Thompson
was introduced to the world of make-
believe. In an emergency he was selected for
the juvenile rolo in " Pinafore," on the merits of
Ins singing voice heard in a boys' choir by an
impressario some years ago. Later Mr. Thomp-
son became an actor, and then the screen seemed
to otter him a place. He has since played oppo-
site no less than thirty feminine film celebrities.

We shall see him opposite Mabel Normand in
the coming photo-plays, " The Slim Princess,"
".What Happened to Ross," and "Head Over
Heels"

Beaded Frock for Doraldina.

ANEW bead garment, consisting of the kind
of. beads that usually go to make up the
bag so popular these days, forms one of
the startling frocks worn bv Madam Doraldina

in her forthcoming production, " Passion
Fruit." It is a very wonderful creation, and
consists entirely of peat] beads of various sizes.

The bodice is a mass of beads, and the skirt
consists of two fringes, also of beads. A girdle of
multi-coloured beads is tied around the waist.

A Real Thrill.

ONK of the thrilling incidents in the early
days of the war has been re-acted for tho
coming picturisation of the wonderful
production, "Tho Four Horsemen of tho
Apocalypse."

A celebrated Paris singer contributes this
gripping scene to the picture. She reproduces a
patriotic scene at a Paris cafe, when she wrapped
herself- in the French colours and sang "La
Marseillaise" with such effect, that diners left
their tables to rush to enlist.

COLLEEN MOORE. The
latest picture of this pretty
star, who is soon to appear
in a number of Marshall
Neilan productions. Her
first screen appearance
was with Bobby Harron.

ANNETTE KELLER-
MANN, whom we are
shortly to see in more
wonderful swimming
scenes in coming photo-
plays, starring the world-
famous water girl.

You will hardly recognise handsome TOM MOORE
in this photograph, bat this is how we shall see him
in the coming Goldwyn picture entitled " Canavan."

Will Rogers in the Pulpit.

WILL ROGERS has been many things ia
his life, and now he is to add to the list.
To ease the minds of his admirers, I will
tell you at once that he is hot going to leave tho
screen, nor throw away his lariats.

He is to appear in the pulpit for one night
only, and preach a sermon. He was invited by
the Rev. James Whitcombe Brougher, the
Pastor of the Temple Baptist Church in Los
Angeles, after the Rev. Brougher heard him
debate before the Los Angeles Advert isins
Club. The debate was on. " Who has done more
for civilisation — cowboys or preachers ? "

When Rogers enters the pulpit his sermon will
be on " Humour in Religion."

. — —

Beauty Steele a Real Character.

SIR GILBERT PARKER paid a visit to
the Metro Studio the other day, for a
special showing of the adaptation'] of his
famous novel. " The Right of Way." in which
Bert Lytell plays the role of Beauty Steele,
the hero.

It is interesting to hear that Sir Gilbert
Parker fashioned Beauty Steele with tie)
minutest accuracy from a lawyer in Montreal
with whom he was personally acquainted aboe.c
twenty years ago.

" This man was peculiarly fascinating." Bai i
Sir Gilbert ; " and his exploits were the tail;
from one end of the city to the other."

— 4~» —

Mabel's Collections.

MABEL NORMAND, whose school adven-
* tures are now appearing in the " Girl*'
Cinema," is not. a collector in the strict
sense of the word, but she keeps a copy of tho
scenario of every photo-play in which she Ija*
appeared, with a photograph and autograph of
every member ni the cast.

" Rather nice to look back on," Mabel suy3,
" when she has left the screen."

Picture Show, November 27lh, 1920.

PICTURE SHOW" CHAT. (Cot7eed3f) om

Viola's New Home.

VIOLA DANA has acquired a half interest
in a home which is large rnough to lose
herself in without any effort. With her
equally famous sister, Shirley Mason, Miss
Dana has purchased a vine-covered house
in the Hollywood hills. .

For neighbours, Miss. Dana has May Allison,
two doors away, Charles Ray a street away,
and Enid Bennett, also only a street away ; ,
while close enough for neighbourliness is the
home of Mary and Doug.

With her new home, Miss Dana becomes
tho possessor of a marble swimming pool, a
tennis court, and a kitchen garden large enough
to provide the whole of Hollywood with salad.
The only superfluous part of the house, she
thinks, is the cellar.

" All we can get to put in it is coal," Viola
complains. " And what is the use of coal in
the land of eternal sunshine ! "

LILLIAN HALL is a
British girl, born at
Chelmsford, Esses.
She played Beth in
Paramount production
ol " Little Women,"
and has appeared with
Sessue Hayakawa in
" An Arabian Knight."

DOROTHY PHILLIPS,
who is now busy starring
in the Alan Holubar
seven-reel production ot
" Man, Woman — Mar-
riage." Miss Phillips is
Mrs. Alan Holubar off
the screen, and a great
favourite over here.

An Amazing Letter.

SEENA OWEN has received an amazing
letter from a British admirer. The writer
claims that he has known her for something
like 2,000 years, and apparently belongs to
that school of thought which believes in prior
existence on this planet.

" 1 remember yon well," he wrote, " when
you were an Egyptian princess and I a slave.
I saw you in a picture the other day, in which
you played the part of a princess, and old
memories returned with a rush."

Tn sending me this information, Miss Owen
remarked that her recollections fall considerably
short of what occurred two thousand years
ago.

A Painful Experience.

ATTACKED by an infuriated half-tame
deer was the exciting but painful ex-
perience of Barbara Bedford, playing
the lead in Maurice Tcurneur's new picture,
" The Last of the Mohicans." The accident
happened in the mountains of the Yosemite.

Miss Bedford . was malting a scene with
Albert Roscoe, who plays Uncas, with tho
deer in the background, and in some manner
it became angered and attacked her, jumping
high and coming down at her with its front feet.
Roscoe ran to her aid, and, with the assistance
of the director, rescued her ; but not before
she had sustained a badly bruised shoulder
when she ducked from the infuriated animal's-
Grst attack.

Designs Her Own Gowns.

CARMEL MYERS does not believe in
following too blindly the dictates of old
Dame Fashion. Ever since she has been
on the screen, Miss Myers has designed every-
thing in frocks and gowns she has worn in her
films. Sometimes she will buy a model costume
and make a few alterations to suit her own
ideas. When she was on the musical comedy
stage she was permitted to plan all hor own
costumes.

" No woman, though she be generously
endowed with good looks, is able to wear all
the frills and fancies," says Miss Myers ; " and I
always make it a rule to temper the ideas of
the professional designer with what I know
is better suited to my personality."

" Shooting the Stars."

*' QHOOTING the stars " is the favourite
form of outdoor sport just now at
Universal City.

Every day, between the hours of eleven and
one, hundreds of tourists and sightseers gather
around to- watch the stars as they walk across
the Plaza to a restaurant.

Such well-known stars as Priscilla Dean,
Carmel Myers, Harry Carey, and Eva Novak
are often to be seen, and most of the spectators
are armed with Kodaks. As the stars cross
they are asked to remain still long enough
to bo " shot." As a rule, they oblige, and put
on their prettiest smiles for the benefit of the
Kodaks, and every time about a score of lens
aro pointed in their direction.

SYDNEY FAIRBROTHER is rapidly becoming as well known as a character actress on the screen as
she is on tbe stage Here we see her in " Laddie," a coming Master Film production, which will be

shown by Butcher's Film Service.

FROM " OVER THERE,7

Notes and News From America.

HAZEL DAWN is making preparations toi
return to the screen fold. She says after
five years' absence she feels she ought t<i
bring back some new ideas. She, it will be re-
membered by those who follow film history,'
starred in a series of pictures made by Famous
Players-Lasky ; then came ther call of th$
stage, and Hazel, who is blonde arid beantifuhj
starred in a succession of Broadway farces.'!
Luck was with her in this stage venture for
every last one of the bedroom farces, from " Upj
in Mabel's Room " to " The Pink Lady " wer&
successful box office attractions. But Hazel
grew weary of the footlights, and longed for "a?
change of pasture, so when A. J. Bimberg offered!
to star her in a series of motion picture produce
tions she accepted with alacrity. Her first will
be " What is Love ? "

Speaking of Working in Two Places.

ALICE BRADY probably holds the record
for working harder than any other filnS
star. She always has at least two prqJ
fessional engagements. The last time I saw her]
she was rushing to tho studio to finish a scene!
in a picture, and hoping she would get through
with her director in time to make a rehearsal
for her new play. All the time she was havingj
final rehearsals in " Anna Ascends " she was*
playing before the camera, working all day and)
most of the night. . I

W. A. Brady, her father, who is tremendously^
proud of Alice's histrionic talent, believes honest
labour never hurt anyone. He never seems in
the least worried when Alice averages nineteen!
hours a day's work, his only concern being howj
well she is doing these various things.

" Anna Ascends " came in for a great deal of,
adverse criticism from the New York dramatic
critic, but strangely enough the entire clan were1
agreed on one thing, that, poor as the play is,
Alice was at her best, and did as well as anyone
conld with such a bad vehicle. But she can snap,
hor fingers at the critics up to the present writing
the house is selling out for every performance,!
and we all know the box office is the only thing!
that counts in the end.

Pearl White as an Intellectual.

I WAS highly amused to find Pearl White atr"
the speaker's table at an Author's League
luncheon this past week. Sitting with her
were Sir Gilbert Parker, Rupert Hughes, Gilette
Burgess, and other well-known writers. PearL
was down for a speech on ""The Author's Place'
on the Screen," and she gave all of the " high
brow " members of the league the surprise of\
their lives at the soundness and excellence of'
her analysis of this much mooted question. . - ,
Gilette Burgess, in introducing her, said :
" Miss Wliite is not an intellectual — that is
not in the sense-of Doris Kenyon, who writes]
poetry ; and Charlie Chaplin, whose wife left
him because he insisted upon reading all the
time, but she does know the screen."

Evidently Pearl decided it was time to let
Mr. Burgess see she was far more of an intel-
lectual than he gave her credit for being. She
gave some of these folk who sell their plays and;
books to motion pictures more food for thought
f han any other speaker. She showed not only a,
familiarity with their side of the qviestion, but
surprising knowledge of their shortcomings ad
well. There were shades of humour and flashes
of wit that kept the whole luncheon party
convulsed.

The Passing of Ned Finley.

THE motion picture world in New York was
shocked last week to hear Ned;Finley, the
well-known screen actor, had ended his
lifo by taking poison. Mr. Finley at one time'
was one of Vitagraph's players. He belonged to
the old stock company tliab J. Stuart Blackton,
assembled. For the past few years Mr. Finlov
has been playing in hard luck, aggravated by
the high cost of living and his apparent in-
ability to get a permanent position. 'He at-
tempted to kill himself onco before by slashing
his arm, and succoedod only in losing a hand.
This time, however, he was successful, and tho
end came after he had taken an overdose of
opium. He was buried by the Actors' Fund, and,
many of tho men and women ho had known in ihel
old days were present at the funeral services.

Louei.la O. Parsons.

Picture H/ioiv, .Vuiimbcr 21th, 1920.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA FOR THE " PICTURE SHOW."

MARGARET LOOMIS being interviewed whilst taking
a ride on an ostrich, by Hiss Emily Squier, one of
America's best story writers.

WESLEY BARRY looks as though he might
have a little difficulty with his novel mount. He has
chosen a call for his steed.

A love scene with MALVINA LONGFELLOW
and ALEC FRASER in " A Gamble in Lives,"
a B. and C. production, adapted from Frank
Stayton's play, " The Joan Danvers."

A Him camera often has to be fixed into awkward positions to take a scene from the point the producer desires. Here you see the camera-man at work on the
front of a carriage, in which can be seen ERIC VON STROHEIM, who is taking the part of a Russian prince.

Picture Show, November 21th, 1920.

tJEGINS TO-DAY ! A POWERFUL STORY OF A GREAT TEMPTATION. By EMMIE ALLINGHAM.

A Woman's Confession.

GREYSTONE MANOR lay bathed in the
afternoon sunlight, as a young man,
dressed in a well-worn tweed suit, crossed
the parkland — not without effort, for the grass
was knee-deep^ — and came towards the house.

He glanced up at the huge edifice of grey
stone, with its curiously turretted corners, and
a shadow passed oyer his not unhandsome
features. ■

He could remember the time when the house
had been one of the show-places of the county.
When his aunt, Amy Greystone, heiress in her
own right, had kept open hous* to all her friends,
and there had been lavishness and hospitality
for all. That was before she had married.

The young man reached the moss-grown,
neglected carriage drive which separated the
house from the park.

A flight of six broad steps, dim and dis-
coloured, went the full length of the buildhig.
In the centre were four huge pillars which sup-
ported a porch.

On either side some half dozen large windows
reached the height of the rooms ; they were
curtainless and dirty.

.An indescribable air of neglect and decay
pervaded the whole place.

The young man walked thoughtfully up the
steps, and pulled at the rusty bell.

No one came to answer it, but the visitor
did not apparently notice the omission for some
minutes.

Although he lived not ten miles away it was
nearly nine years since ho had last visited his
relations.

He had made an unfortunate marriage, a
mesalliance, and his people with one accord
had washed their hands of him.

It had not worried him in the least at the time.
He had sutticient to live modestly. He "-was
naturally proud, and when his young wife had
presented him with a daughter, and then faded
away, ho had felt at the time that he would
never forgive those of his own flesh and blood
who had dared to ignoro her.

But that had happened seven years ago, and
time had softened the bitterness.

The chango in the appearance of Greystone
Manor had been a shock to him. He had heard
vague rumours of his uncle's extravagance
and wastefulness, but that the place could have
fallen into such decay in the space of a few
years was almost inconceivable.

He was about to ring the bell again when the
door was suddenly opened, and an old woman,
wearing a tall muslin cap over her scant grey
hair, beckoned him to enter.

" My mistress saw you as you crossed tl»o
park, sir. She was certain you would have
reached the house by now," she said, in the half-
rjuerulous voice peculiar to old age, as she
fixed her faded eyes upon the visitor.

" You remember me, Ann ? " said the young
man, smiling down at her.

Somehow, it was a relief to him to see someone
unchanged in the old place.

" Yes, I remember you, sir. It's not so many
years ago that I clouted your ear for stealing
the apricots I was wanting for myself."

" By Jove, no, Ann ! I rememl)er that ! You
were in a tantrum. 1 never knew apricots were
such a little failing with you."

" You were always a greedy boy, Master
Arthur," replied the old woman, as she pro-
ceeded to lead tho way up tho bare oak stairs.

The young man noticed that the rich Turkey
carpets and the priceless pictures, which had
given such on air of comfort to the staircase,
had all disappeared.

The old woman threw open n door on the
first floor, and Arthur Weston found himself in
n large, baro room. It was fitted up with a
hug;, old-fashioned post bedstead and a ward-
robe. A few rugs were strewn about the floor.

In an easy chair, propped up with cushions,
sat a woman. She turned her head eagerly as
the young man entered.

She was a greyheaded woman, not much past
middle life, but sorrow and disappointment had
left their pitiless marks upon her.

Arthur went forward to greet her, but sud-
denly he stopped and hesitated.

Surely this miserable, sad-eyed woman was
not his aunt.

The sick woman smiled mournfully as she
held out a frail, thin hand.

' I suppose you find me changed, Arthur,"
she said.

The young man took the hand between his own.

" My dear aunt," he exclaimed in a shocked
. voice, " you are ill ! "

" Yes, I am. I know that, Anthur. That is
why I sent for you."

The young man gazed at her anxiously.

She had not released his hand, and now she
clung to it.

" Arthur, I am thinking about my boy."

Amy Rae's Trust.

THE words broke from her lips with a sob of
anguish.

Arthur was bewildered.
" My dear aunt, I am afraid I don't under-
stand,"' ho said. " What does it all mean ?
I had no idea you were in trouble. Tell me all
about it, and if I can do anything, you know
I will ! "

" Yes, I believe you, Arthur. You are a
gentleman by birth and breeding. Oh ! why
would I not listen when I was warned ? "

The sick woman's eyes were very bright her
bosom heaved beneath her thin cotton gown.

Arthur put his arm around her. Ho had
always liked his aunt Amy in the old days.

'' Tell me all about it," he said gently.

Tho sick woman clutched at his shoulder.

" It's your uncle Cecil, the father of my
Harry ! " she said excitedly. " Although I have
never confessed it before, he married me, not
for love, as he pretended, but for what I had.
I found it out as soon as my baby — my Harry —
was born. I heard him talking. Ho was in
drink • but a drunkard often speaks the truth.
1 watched him after that. I never told him, I
knew , but ho had made me think. I had been
such a fool. Ho is ten years younger than I am,
and I would not bother about settlements, I
trusted him so thoroughly."

The woman's voice broke, and the tears
gushed from her eyes.

'.' Ho wanted to livo in London. After that
night I left him there and came back here.
I tried to save — but where I saved a hundred
ho would spend a thousand. It was always liko
that, until I got desperate. They toll me now
that he actually talks of putting this place into
the market."

Arthur stared at his aunt incredulously.

" But surely, aunt, you have something to
say in the matter ? I can't understand it all.
You bewilder me. I thought that you and my
uncle lived on tho best of terms ; that you were
an ideal couple."

The sick woman nodded her head.

" We never do quarrel. Wo seldom get anyry
wifh each other, for he goes his way and I go
mine. He spends his timo in London, and 1 live
here. He murried me for what I had, and so
I have let him have it."

" But. my dear aunt, this is madness ! I
can't think what uncle Cecil can be thinking
about ! Do you mean to tell mo that my cousin
Harry is absolutely unprovided for ? Why,
what age is ho ? He is at school now, of course? "

The sick woman nodded her head.

" Ho was sixteen last birthday," she said.

"And do you mean to tell mo that there is"
no provision mado for his future ? " cried

Arthur indignantly. " It is monstrous. I'vd_
never heard of such a wrong."

The sick woman was regarding him steadily.
What she saw in his face apparently satisfied her.

" Arthur ! " She uttered the name in a
tense voice. . . . \ u

He looked at her, and waited.-

" Would you help Harry if you could ? " she
whispered eagerly.

" My dear aunt, of course I would ! But what
can I do ? I have a ch'ld of my own. But if you
like I will go and see my uncle, and reason with
him."

" That would be of no use, Arthur, but "

She paused, and her feverish eyes swept the
room.

" There is no one about ? Where is Ann ? " .
she asked.

Arthur went to the door, and glanced out
into the passage. Then he came back to the
sick woman.

" There is no one about," he said gently.

He was going to take his seat again beside
her, but she motioned him away.

" Over there, under the mattress ! " she said
excitedly. " Go and get it and bring it to me."

" Bring what, dear ? "

" The bag ! Quick, before anyone comes in I " .

Arthur went to the bedside and placed his ,
hand along the mattress. He could not find
anything for a moment, until he became aware
of a peculiar shaped pillow, which he thought
at first had been thrust along to keep the bed
in shape.

" That is it," cried his aunt eagerly.

He noticed how her frail hands were trembling
as ho watched her undo the wrappings.

Then suddenly she paused and glanced up at
him again.

" Arthur, can I trust you ? " she said again.

" I think you can, aunt," said the young
man, smiling down at her.

She seemed satisfied then.

" Take this then, boy. It is my savings.
When I saw that my propert/ was going, I
helped to let it go. I 8ai . uj myself, if I try to
save tho estate, Cecil will get it sooner or later.
1 am but saving it for Cecil to waste again. He
nover knows what ho spends : ho only knows
ho spends all there is. This is mine. I've
saved it for my boy, but I dare not give it him.
If his father knew he had it, it would all go,
just as mine has, and so I have sent for you.
I shall not live long now. I should have not
lived as long as I have, if I had not been think-
ing of my boy. I want you to take this money,
and at my death this house will come into
your hands.

" It was left to me, and I can leave it to whom
I choose. When Cecil, my husband, comes to
see me or sends to ask me to sign the papers
necessary for its sale, I shall not refuse ; but
thov will come too late for me to attend to. I
shall be gone. I will make a- will to-night
leaving to you, apparently, this house, but it is
really for my boy. When he is twenty-one you
must pass it on to him. The. money is for you
to invest for him. and then to keep it tip whilo
the farms are being nursed. You will have
five years, and my boy will not provo ungrateful,
Arthur. You will do this for mo — for him ?

The sick woman had cluMhed hold of his
hands : her feverish eyes were fixed with u
fierce intensity upon her companion's face.

" But, aunt, I supposo I am stupid, but oven
now I do not think I clearly understand. You
aro going to make - a will in my favour, and
tins

He glanced at the pliable leather bag, which
was evidently intended for a music case, which
rested on her lap.

She nodded and thrust it towards him.

" It is a small fortune, and all in hundred
(Continued on u*m 8

Pieturi S/iow, November 21th, 1920.

DANCING ON THE FILMS.

Wallace Retd* and Bete Daniels
:: in " The Dancm Fool. ::

JUST a few of the steps of the Tango
which Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels
shew in " The Danoin' Fool " are to be
seen on this page. In the top left-hand
picture Wallace is asking Bebe to dance
with him. The picture on the right shows
the kick, which is a great feature of most
of the tangoes. This must be done very
gracefully.

ANOTHER version of the " kick " is to
beseeil in the left-hand lower photo-
graph. This is very effective on the
screen, but as dancing is very simple nowa-
days, it would be rather out of place in a
ballroom. The last picture shows the com-
mencement of a new glide.

Picture Show, November 21th, 1920.

"Manacled By Money.'

(Continued from
-page 6.)

pound Bank of England notes,' she said.
" Arthur, tell me again that I can trust you."

Did an intuition warn poor Amy Kae of the
rfsfc she was taking ?

Arthur bent and kissed her. He was greatly
moved.

" May God indeed punish me if I do not
respect your trust in me," he said very earnestly,
and at that moment he meant sincerely what
he said.

The Temptation.

IT was not until that evening in his study, with
the curtains drawn well over the windows
and the door closed, that Arthur Weston
examined the contents of the bag.

He caught his breath as sheaf after sheaf of
notes were piled up on the table.

His aunt had spoken truly. There was a
fortune represented in the crisp bank notes
before him.

Arthur Weston leaned back in his chair and
stared before him thoughtfully. He went over
in his mind the conversation he had had with
his aunt. She had talked of leaving him Grey-
stone Manor, in charge for her son, and he
wondered how she would word the will. It
was altogether a strange business, and a great
responsibility.

He glanced at the notes again, and then he
became aware that his hands had gone forward
quite unconsciously and were fingering them.

There was something very fascinating in their
touch.

Twenty thousand pounds !

A slight noise startled him.

Involuntarily he swept the notes into the
bag, glancing anxiously around as lie did so.

Never in his life before had he aught to con-
ceal. He had led a somewhat lazy, uneventful
life, except for the episode of his marriage.

Nine years ago he had gone to London for a
holiday, and had been introduced to a little
chorus girl — a frail but charming creature who
brought out all that was best in his nature.

He had married her and brought her home.
They had been quite happy, except for one tiny
fly in the ointment. His people ignored them,
and the little wife had fretted.

Arthur had discovered the fact. It had not
troubled him, but after her death ho had
nursed it up against them as a grievance.

The bag was fastened, and lay on the table
before him, when the door was cautiously
opened. As the man looked up, the tense ex-
pression on his features relaxed, as a small girl
in her nightdress suddenly peeped round the
door at him.

" May I come in, daddy ? " she said in a low,
anxious whisper, as she gave a hurried glanco
behind to see that she was not pursued.

The father held out his arms, and the little
Creature glided across the room and flung her-
self upon him.

Jessica Watson was sevon years of age. Her
hair, which was now confined in rag knobs over
her head to fall in graceful curls on the morrow,
sparkled as newly burnished bronze where a
stray wisp had escaped confinement.

Her eyes, dark blue with the velvety softness
of the pansy blossom, were large, expressive,
and full of intelligence.

Her skin, delicate as the peach blossom, was
now flushed with excitement.

" I have been trying to get to you, daddy,
for hours and hours," she declared, with her
mouth close to the man's ear, and her warm
little body nestling against him.

"I went to tea with tho Fergusons today,
you know, and Jim has a lovely little Shetland
pony. It is a darling, daddy, and it let mo
sit on its back. And there is another one,
just like Jimmy's, and I do so want it,
daddy. I said I would ask you to give it to
Kie, and Jimmy laughed. He said it would
test lots and lots of money, and he knew 1 could
not have it. But I can, can't I, daddy ? "

Arthur Weston smiled at his little daughter's
eagerness. She was always wanting something J
new. It was natural, ho supposed.

Jessica patted his check with an eager little
hand.

" Don't laugh ! " sho cried indignantly. " I
don't love you when you laugh. You always
do that when I tell you what I want. And it
is:i't funny, daddy dear, I do want tho pretty
little gee-gee. I could ride it, and 1 would

never, never be frightened like Jimmy is. He
told his mother that he wasn't, but I 'saw his
toes all squirmy like in his shoes. He was
frightened, and I wasn't, not one bit.'

" But what about Gyp ? You have had him
less than a month. Are you tired of him
already ? "

" Oh no, daddy. Don't be so silly. I can't
ride a fox terrier, can I ? And Gyp w^ants tho
pony too. He told me so."

Jessica paused to discover how this infor-
mation would be accepted.

Her father held up a warning finger.

" Jessica, Jessica," he said, shaking his head
at her.

The child caught hold of the finger and tried
to bite it, while she laughingly carried on the
argument.

It was difficult for the man to refuse her.
Even now the tears were standing in her eyes —
eyes so like her mother's.

" Daddy dear, do say yes. You have only
got to say yes," the baby voice was pleading.

And then as his eyes wandered round the
room, as he strove for suitable words to break
the refusal to her as gently as he could, his gaze
suddenly rested on the bag which lay on the
table before him — the bag which held a fortune.

" It is not mine. It all belongs to young
Harry Rae," he told himself passionately. But
the baby arms about his neck seemed to be
uttering a protest.

" Naughty daddy. You must give Jessica
the little pony. You must, daddy ! Oh, please !
please ! please ! "

Harry Weston gazed down at his child.

Never before had he done a dishonourable
action that he could remember, but he had
never been so tempted before.

"She will tire of it, and then I can sell the
pony perhaps to advantage. After all, it will
be stock," he told himself.

" Well, suppose I say you may have the
pony ? " he asked, turning a smiling face to the

chad.

" You darling daddy ! "

He was clasped round the neck in a strenuous
embrace, and his face was covered with some-
what moist kisses.

" Daddy, good-night ! I must go to 1 ed
now, so that I wake up early in the morning.
I must get up, mustn't I, daddy f I must go
and tell Jim. And tell his father, too, to send
tho other pony down to us, and not [send it
back."

She was half across the room by now, and
she had quito forgotten to whisper. Her shrill
baby voice was raised high ia her excitement.

" I suppose you couldn't go and let Gyp
in just for a minute, could you, daddy ? " She
had stopped suddenly and turned again towards
him. I only want to just breave it in his
ear."

Arthur sprang forward and caught her in his
arms.

" Gyp is fast asleep in the stables. You
would not wake him up, would you ? Tell him
to-morrow."

" Yoh don't want to go out into the cold
yourself. You are a bad daddy, but I do love
you awful much." |lrfl

She had allowod him to take her in his arms.
Out in the passage an anxious nursemaid was
waiting.

She broke into a volley of excuses for her
charge, but Jessica interrupted her.

" You said I would not got the pony, but
daddy says I may have it. And ho wasn't a
bit angry, wero you, daddy ? Mary said you
would be."

A dark flush spread over Mary's face. As
sho explained to cook afterwards.

" It isn't as if he wore so generous with us.
Telling us to keep on economising, and then
going and buying a new horse. Nothing is too
good for that kid ; ho just spoils her. Sho
will bring trouble to him ono of these days.
You mark my words."

Cook smiled good-naturedly.

" She is a rare, pretty, little thing. And if
a man don't spoil his own, whose should ho
spoil ? ' she said.

The Will.

A FORTNIGHT later Amy Rae died.
Arthur was not askod to attend tho
funeral until the last moment.
But ho hod been expecting that, and was
quite prepared.

It was a cold and blustering day in early

September, and never had Greystone Manor
looked more desolate.

Already the loaves had commenced to fall,
and under the leaden -grey sky the old house
wore a most mournful appearance.

Cecil Rae had come down the night before
from London, and Arthur overheard him inform-
ing the Rev. Mr. Ferguson that ho had already
taken steps to place the property on the market.

He did not see Harry until they all met in
the shabby, dismantled library for, the reading
of the will.

Arthur saw a tall, slight youth, who had the
small, aristocratic features of his mother.
There was now something in his expression
which reminded his cousin very forcibly of her.

Arthur went up to him and grasped his hand.

" Where have you been, old fellow ? " he
asked, in a hushed voice, suitable to the occasion.
" I've been looking out for you ever since I
arrived."

Harry flushed slightly.

" I've been round looking at the old place.
It looks a bit of a barn, doesru't it ? "

" Yes ; but it coidd be made very nice. I
suppose you do not remember it in the old
days » " said Arthur.

Oh, but I do. I remember it when I was
little. I always picture it when I am away
just a9 it was then."

Harry spoke feelingly.

He turned away abruptly. He was abnor-
mally sensitive, and had all a boy's horror of
showing his feelings, and so he avoided Arthur
for the rest of the day.

The reading of the will did not take long.

A Boy's Confidence.

MR. CECIL RAE became very excited and
angry when the will was read. Somehow,
he had never thought of the possibility of
there being one. There were a few small bequests
to the servants. The sum of ono thousand pounds
in trust to the Rev. Mr. Ferguson, to pay for
Harry's schooling and expenses ; a small legacy
for the clergyman for his trouble, and five
hundred pounds to the boy himself. Grey-
stone Manor, the contents and all the I. mil
surrounding, was bequeathed to Arthur Weston,
tho dearly loved nephew of the deceased.

Mr. Cecil Rae here interrupted the lawyer
with a volume of excited protest, and Arthur
quiotly took his departure. He had heard all
that he wished to hear. Greystone Manor was,
to all appearance, and as far as the law was
concerned, his property. Only he and his
God knew that ho held it only in trust. He
took his way slowly through the grounds. He
knew that they were neglected, but already in
his mind plans for the restoration of the place
wore forming. He had five years, he told him-
self. Five years before he wa9 to pass it on to
the proper owner. Already his hands wero
itching to begin the good work. He passed
through the kitchen garden into the orchard.
The fruit hung heavy on tho trees.

" This fruit must be sold," he was thinking,
quite unconscious that such a thought had
never entered his mind about his own orchard.

This place was something quite different. It
was left him to work ; to turn into something
like a business proposition.

At the farther end of the orchard there was a
gato which led through to tho homo meadow.

From there ho could get to the road without
returning to tho house. As he made his way
towards it ho becamo aware of voices the other
side of the high, ovorgrown hedge.

" It is not that I mind him having it so much,
Grace. It is tho beastly feeling that mother
did not trust me. I was her son. She know 1
loved the old place, and yet sho gives it to him —
a man she never seemed to care for."

" I know, Harry, and I cunnot understand it
at all ; but you must not think unkindly of
your mother. I am certain sho meant well.
Whatever she did I know she believed sho was
acting for the best."

Arthur had listened to so much, before ho
realised who tho two young peoplo wore.
Then he recognised that the boy was Harry,
and the girl Grace Ferguson, the vicar's daughter
who was about tho boy's ago.

" If she meant well, it is a strange way of
showing it."

Harry's voice was harsh with pain.
" I can't believe that mother could havo
mndo such a will, Grace. Honestly, now, can
you ? She knew how I loved tho old place,
and how scared 1 was when dad talked of

ftclurc Show, November 21th, 1920.

selling. I always thought sho hung on here
just to keep it for mo. But that she should
actually make that wilt and leave it to that
outsider. Why, she never evon invited him
to the place. I've been in the trap with hor,
and she has passed him by, just as though she
never knew aim, I never did hear what ha*.
had done, but I guess it was something mean.
He looks like it. Don't you think so ? '

" Poor Harry ! It is an awful blow, old
fellow, but don't let it make you unjust," said
the girl gently.

The boy threw bock his head with a haughty
gesture.

" You must not think that I really mind
very much, Grace," he said, biting his lip to
keep it from trembling. " I shall come in
ti -night and talk to your father. I don't
mean to waste my time with any more educa-
tion. What will be the use of it to me now,
inyway ? I shall get him to let me have some
.noney just to give me a start in life. I shall
go out to Australia ; that is what I shall do."

" To Australia. 1 But that is so far away ;
and you are only a boy."

The words had passed the girl's lips before
she was aware that she was speaking aloud.
' Harry glanced at her sharply.

These two had always been good friends, ever
since the boy could remember. His mother
had loved Grace and the girl was always a
(welcome visitor.

In those far off days, when he had first
returned home from a preparatory school,
('race had ever been his willing little slavo.

She could shoot and fish with as good results
as himself, and he never knew the hours she
spent in making herself proficient and so
worthy of his notice.

" I know that I'm only a boy," he said.
" But many boys start earning a living when
they are younger than I am. I have got to
work my way up ; that's all. I mean to do it,
too," he went on, as he squared his shoulders.
" I shall show them all what I am made of,
and then I shall come back."

He drew a deep breath.

The girl beside him made no answer.

She had stooped to pick the daisies at her
feet, and her face was turned away from him.
She dared not look up or trust her voice.

The idea of Harry going away filled her with
a fear that almost amounted to terror. When
he was at school she knew that she could never
go to him, that weeks would pass, perhaps, and
he would not give a thought to her, but there
was always the possibility. And when he did
come home — now there would be no home.
He would go away, and she might never see
him again.

1 The boy guessed nothing of what was passing
in her mind.

He glanced down at her somewhat im-
patiently. He wanted her to answer him. It
was at this moment that he became conscious
of the man behind the hedge.

Arthur had stopped to listen. He was quite
unconscious that he might not be' acting quite
honourably.

Ho was thinking it was a grand opportunity
for him to discover the type of youth his
cousin might be.

He was waiting to hear more, when Harry^
'uttered an exclamation, and when he spoke
again, his voice was raised slightly.

" If you want to interest yourself in our con-
versation, why don't you come up and show
yourself instead of skulking behind that hedge ? "

Arthur did not realise at first that the words
were addressed to him, but when a clod was
dropped over and hit him on the shoulder, he
suddenly woke up to the fact that he was dis-
covered.

His first impulse was flight, his second to go
forward.

Ho was indignant and angry with his cousin's
(attitude towards himself, which he felt to be
[unjust.

' He hurried towards the gate and looked over.

"Look here, youngster," he said, "I think
you have said quite enough rude things about
me. I must confess that I never thought you
looked upon me in this light. You have
'avoided me all day, and I have not ha)A a
chance to speak to you ; but you and I must not
nuarrel. If only for your mother's sake I am
willing to be friends."

Harry had flushed a deep crimson. He was
(Continued on page 18.)

FILMS OF THE WEEK

The " Pidlure Snow's ' Gu»Je to P»<fture-goers.

" The Woman Gives." Norma Talmadqe

( Wall unlaw).

THE eldest of the three clover Talmadge
sisters in a dramatic rolo as a girl artist
in a romance of the New York artists'
colony. It is a story of the ties of friendship,
and shows how a young girl, determined and
unaided, saves a man, body and soul.

" Upstairs." Mabel Normand (Stoll).

A PHOTO PLAY that will keep you in the
greatest spirits is this film, with Madcap
Mabel in her merriest mood. It tells
of a girl " below stairs " in a hotel, and her
longings to explore the unknown region " up-
stairs." Her adventures when she does get
there are of the true Mabel Normand variety.

" The Dragon Painter." Sessue Hayakawa
and Tsuri Aoki (Jury's).

A LOVE legend of Japan brought to life
on the screen. It tells of a young painter
in the mountains and his wild and at
length fruitful search of his ideal, " The Dragon
Princess." It shows how a love came between
him and his art, and how a ruse was the means
of bringing happiness to both the princess
and the painter. Exquisite in every detail.

" More Deadly than the Male." Ethel
Clayton (Paramount -Arte raft).

AN original photo-play founded on Kipling's
famous line, " The female of the species
is more deadly than the male." Ethel
Clayton plays the role of a woman-riddle-tigress-
angel, and plays it splendidly. There is a
startling climax in this play.

" Mr. Gilfil's Love Story." Hkndersox
Bland and Marie Odette (Ideal).

AN appealing story of an Italian girl brought
up in England, and of her great lovo
for a man, selfish and unworthy. Gilfil,
her guardian angel, does not keep for long hi*
long-awaited happiness, and the play ends on
a noto of tragedy. Fair production.

"A White Man's Chance." J. Washes
Kerrigan and Lillian Walker (Oaumont).

THE love and adventures of a white mail
and girl in Mexico, with the well-known
favourites in typical roles. Thrilling
fights between the hero and the villainom
Mexican and effective love scenes are provided
in a well-told story.

" Over the Garden Wall." Bessie Love
( Vitatjraph ).

A DELIGHTFULLY acted story of two
sisters, the daughters of an old book-
worm, and their love affairs. The din-
appearance of a contract adds to the complica-
tions, and a thrilling abduction provides many
exciting situations. Acting very good.

" Deuce Duncan." William Desmond
( Western Import). *

THE breezy actor in a fine Western role — a
dashing, hard-riding cowboy. Plenty of
rapid action and stirring moments.

" The Bat." Edward Mathe and Mllb.

Stella (Oaumont).

MYSTERY that ever holds young and old
alike is here. This drama is written
round a plot in which a man ^s blind
in daylight, but can see in the dark.

A LITTLE STAR

My First Engagement.

MY first experienie was to play " water-
babe " in an artistic scenic entitled
" Historic Hampstead," . which was
conceived and carried out by Mr. K. C. Spiers,
the well-known journalist who has also the
honour of being my uncle. (No, that isn't
swank ; he says he's proud of me !)

Well, in that film I had to crawl out of a
bed of water-lilies with very little on except
flowers. It was lucky I was requested to crawl,
for I could do little else at that time, being
but — well, what's less than 1 — 0 and a half ?

A Jammy Story.

MY second performance was in my daddy's
picture-play, " The Heart of a Rose."
I had " some " part in that ! I was only
two years of age, and had to be " on " in a
dozen scenes. Sometimes I wanted to and
sometimes I didn't, which worried the producer,
Mr. Jack Denton. But he's awfully nice to
kiddies. He didn't smack me, though I stuck
his working script so tight with jam that he
couldn't see what came next till the stage
carpenters got hot water and unsticked it.

I wasn't the only one who got all over jam ;
there were other children in the scenes — all
Mrs. Shufflebottom's children. We started off by
eating cakes and jam very nicely, but by the
time we'd rehearsed the scene umpteen times,
because some child looked at the camera or
some dreadful un-actor-like thing of the sort,
we gradually got so sticky all over that I was
afraid we'd have to be scraped.

" Testimony."

MY most recent engagement was a few
weeks ago in the George Clark Pro-
ductions latest screen play, " Testimony."

Her First Love.

I'VE had a really and truly love letter from
an unknown admirer — a little girl in Lanca-
shire who saw my picture in the Picture
Show last year. In her letter, she says, " I
think you're the dearest, sweetest little girl I
ever saw." Mother and I are keeping her letter,
so that when I grow up I will remember to be
always sweet and dear to other little children.

Interview

Ltftle Joan Mary

Little JOAN MARY, daughter of Langford Reed.

IVY DUKE.

V'ellow Net Curtains and Sunshine.

IVY DUKE lias a wonderful idea of colour
effects. When I went to have a chat with
her the other morning she was wearing a
delightful b!ack silk stockinet gown, with
touches of white. The daintiest of black lace
hats showed off the
glint of her fair hair
and the charm of her
delicate feature?.

" I usually wear dark
colours off the stage, or
when I'm not doing
film work," she' told
me. " I" love simple
things, and I have a
craze for collecting old
oak, not oak with a lot
of carving, but plain
Puritan oak of the
Queen Aune period,
and I'm very fond of
old glass," she added
smilingly, " especially
of the old Waterford variety."

She asked me if I had ever tried yellow net
curtains on my windows.

' They give a sunshiny effect," she declared.

From Fairy Queen to Villainess.

AN old actress told nie the other day,"
Miss Duke confided, " that there were
not so many good actresses about now
a= in the old days when many were paid about
twelve shillings a week."

" Because," she explained to Miss Duke,
" then we had to play everything from fairy
queen to villainess. One was never allowed to
f r.y, ' I'm too old or too young for a part,' she
Imd simply got to make herself do it.
*

Where There's a Will There's a Way.

" I THINK the old actress's comments were
I most useful," said Miss Duke, " for it's so
easy to get into the habit of thinking one
ran' ofily play a certain role — comedy or tra-
(iady.

" Personally, I find comedy difficult, and it's
very trying work for a producer when he find-!
himself up against rooted ideas. If he'll take
i he trouble to get one out of a rut, he's a decided
Mossing to the fortunate artiste who can awaken
bis interest.

" It's a terrible mistake to let people persuade
one to do only one pari all one's life.

The Lowest Rung of the Ladder.

YOU see I had luck," Miss Ivy Duke con-
fessed. " All the same, if you start off
in a leading part, you've got to be bad
tn l>r> good. But I quite realise it is best to begin
:it the bottom and work up to the top. If a girl
aspires to walk on in the films, in the hope of
paining a small part one day, she must keep her
i ye9 open and train herself to be observant."

" But don't you think Cinema acting a gift ? "
I asked.

" It's a question of experience. One has to
1 o terribly persevering. Anyone who has brains
in their head and a
heart in their body can
get on.

Can You Cry at
Will?

I DEFY anyone to
do so without
training," said
Miss Duke. " Until
you can cry, you can-
not call yourself an
artiste."

"When I first
started," she laughed,
I had to uso onions
to bring tears to my
eyes, but the effect
wasn't natural enough.
Not long ago I played
from ten o'clock in the
mornine until twelve o'clock at midnight, and
most of the timo I had to cry.

" I simply had to work myself up into a state
of real emotional grief. Having reached that
stage I was filmed."

Another Lure.

BUT much as Miss Duke adores screen work,
she has another passion and that is
animals and open-air life. " Betty," Miss

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Duke's rough-haired terrier, is also a star in her
way, and often does film work.

" On a farm in Oxfordshire," Miss Duke told
me, " I've got three horses, some pigs, two
calves, and a kitten, and, of course, I've two
dogs. If my heart was not in films, I should like
to work on the land, do rough riding, and groom
my own horses."

In Picturesque Garb.

I WENT to see Mr. Gerald Lawrence the other
evening. I expect many of you saw him
in the role of Mario Cavaradossi, in " La
Tosca " not so long ago. Incidentally it was a
part that accentuated that fascinating musical
voice of his.

An Irving Touch.

I ADORED Irving," he told mo. " In fact,
I worshipped him, and I was equally
devoted to Laurence, with whom I colla-
borated in the play ' Richard Lovelace.' When
Irving gave me the parts that Laurence had
hitherto played, the latter never showed the
slightest resentment. We were always friends
to the last. ►

" I was playing the King to Irving's Becket
the week he died. I always used to look' for-
ward to a little chat with him between the acts.
It was a strange coincidence that only the night
before he died, he turned to me and said :

" 'Just as one is beginning to know a little
about this work of ours, it's time to leave it.'

A Strange Coincidence.

I'M immensely interested in British film pro
duction," Gerald Lawrence admitted.
" Of course, I think that the producer ha;

the most difficult tasU.
He has. to be so careful
to build up each con-
secutive part of tho
play or the effect is
disjointed.

" Amongst films in
which I've played are
' David Garrick ' and
LA Bunch of Violets.'
My last film was for
the Gaumont in ' Tho
Fall of a Saint.' By
tho by," he added, " of
course I did ' Enoch
Arden.' It was on my
suggestion that we
played some of the

MERCY HATTON.

scenes where ' tropical effects ' were required
in the Scilly Isles.

" We put up at a hotel there, and a few days
after the landlady came to mo and asked :
' Are you doing Enoch Arden " ? ' When I
admitted that that . was the case she said,
' Come with me.'

" I followed her through the hotel grounds
to a certain spot noar an immense tree, and
there wo* a tablet which bore words to this
effect : ' In those grounds in 18G9 Alfred Tenny-
son wroto " Enoch Arden." ' "

.Mr. Lawrence told me that he had no idea of
this fact when he suggested the Scilly Isles for
some of the scenes.

Mercy !

IT'S my own name," faughed Mercy Hatton,
when I was having tea with her the other
afternoon ; " but they used to call me
' Fiery ' in the department in which I worked
at tho War Office during the war.

" No, I assure you it had nothing to do with
my temper," she laughed. " It was because of
the red tint in my hair."

Indian Embroidery and an Idea.

MISS HATTON and I found that at least
we shared one pleasure in common, and
that was watching other people, but for
the moment I was quite content to look at her.

She was wearing black charmeuse, and a
wonderful charmeuse coat-cape affair, with big,
wide kimono shaped embroidered cuffs, and
touches of gold across the collar.

" It was my own idea," she confided. " I
adoro designing. The gold embroidery is
Indian. It was once a funny little Indian gold
embroidered cape. So if you have such a
treasure, you'll know what to do with it."

Mother love. Another stronf scene showing IV1
DUKE, who takes the leading role.

PlCTrHE Show Abt SiH-LfcMK.NT, Xonmbrr Zllh, 1920.

Picture Show Art Supplement, yorember 27th. 1920.

■bir 21th, 1920.

)UT BRITISH PLAYERS.

STUDIOS. AND GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR OWN STARS.

The Fluffy Heroine.

I'VE played in quite a lot. of films," Miss
Hntton told me; "and in several of
Baroneaa D'Orezy's books, and I simply
adore her. She's a dear .'

"I've played in 'Her Son,' and ' In the Case
of Lady Camber ' for the Broadwest Films.
Also in 'The Romance of a Movie Star,' and
' In the Sands of Time.' "

Between ourselves I think I might mention
Miss Hatton is delightfully pretty, but she
obviously doesn't mind sacrificing her youth
and beauty to her art, for she plays the mother
in " Her Son," and she also assured me that sho
was not keen on tho "fluffy-haired" heroine
type, but she preferred doing character parts.

In Search of a Storm.

I MET Alec Fraser the other evening. He had
just come back after some exciting ad-
ventures off. the .Welsh coast, where he was
doing film work with the B. & C. Company.

" Knowing that this is the month for storms,"
he laughed, " we set off on a collier to find one.
But we sailed about on water as smooth as glass,
and beneath cloudless skies for three weeks
without the trace of a storm. Most disappoint-
ing ! "

The Porter and the Lady.

ALEC FRASER was playing the part of a
captain, and rigged in his blue and gold
uniform, he was going down the stairs of
his hotel one morning to join the rest of the
company, when a lady suddenly rushed up- to
him, thrust her suit-case in his hand, and
said : " Porter, take this up to room number
eight ! "

" Hullo, Dearie ! "

" I WAS one of the
Y first British
actors to go in
for film work," Mr.
Fraser told me, " in
the days when fifteen
shillings a week was
considered a huge
salary. I've played
in revue ; my nest-
le nown song was
' Hullo, Dearie.' I
was Dick Smith in
'The Wild Widow'
at the Lyceum, and
I also played in ' Boy
of My Heart.' Of

course I've played in crowds of musical come-
dies, amongst them being ' The Belle of New
York.' "

He's now at work on a film for the Ideal
Company.

Scenario Editor and Producer.

ONE of our most versatile of producers is
Air. Guy Newall. Hard work has no
terrors for him. He lives, dreams, and
slaves for his ideal — that of producing the best
films in the world.

" It was when Mr. Richard Clark and I were
stationed at Dover on those nights of air raids,
that we decided, ' when the war was over, to
set up and make pictures,' " he told me the
other morning.
M

One in a Hundred.

" /~\XE has to be tremendously particular in
\^ the choice of a scenario. Hundreds of
books are studied by our readers
during the eourse of a year, yet the percentage
that is selected only works out at one in a
hundred."

The Sub-title Habit.

SUB-TITLES are of the greatest import-
ance," he declared. "The days of the
commonplace phrases are past. When
describing the intervening period, for instance,
between summer and autumn, ' three months
are supposed to elapse,' was quite good enough
in old days for a sub-title, but not now ! "

This is one of Guy Newall 's sub-titles to
describe an interval between the seasons :
"' The sickle of time had been to the corn,"
Much pleasanter reading, don't you agree ?

ALEC FRASER.

A Fine Film.

THE other afternoon I went to see " Tcsti.
mony," adapted from the novel by Alice
and Claude Askew, and included in Stolt'a
Eminent British Authors' Series. Tho scenario
and entire production is by Guy Newall. Mis*
Ivy Duke ploys the
leading role.

»» Rachel Lyons (Man fj/fk
Rorke), the descendant
' of Puritanical stock
who for centuries have
lived at Lyons Farm,
has arf idol in her son
—Gilian (David Haw-
thorne), and an ideal
— that what was in the .
beginning, shall so
remain !

Rachel is a hard, just
woman, and rules Lyons
Farm and its inmates
with a rod of iron.
Lueinda (Barbara
Everest) lives with
Rachel and her son. GUY NEWALL.
Rachel has trained

Lueinda to become Gilian's wife, but at the
opening of the story his heart is fancy free.

The Disappointment.

THEN one day Althea May (Ivy Duke), bred
in a city, comes as a schoolmistress to the
old-world village, And with her beautv,
her bewitching charms, and her poppy red
gown, she fascinates Gilian. She reminds him
of a flower.

But practical Lueinda has been told by
Rachel, " she is to go about more with OHIian."
Lueinda at last, stung to bitterness, says,
" if Gilian wants me for a wife, he'll have to ask
me himself-; besides I'm not good enough for
him ; " to which Rachel replies :

" Take this for your comfort — no woman
could be."

But Gilian becomes more and more enamoured
with Althea May. At last, one glorious summer's
day, they discover their great love for one
'another. Althea lived with a little old maid
named Lissie Emmett (Miss Marie Wright),
who watches love's young dream with wistful
sympathy.

When Rachel hears of this, she faces the dis-
appointment of her life. Her castles in the air
come crashing to the earth. She has a bitter
quarrel with her son. At last, however, she has
to give way, but her stern unbending spirit
remains. Gilian and Althea are married.
Through many months Althea surfers the iron
will of her mother-in-law. At last her child is
born. But she has now entirely cut herself
adrift from Rachel. She refuses a bundle of
old-fashioned baby clothes, because she pre-
ferred pretty ones for her baby, not knowing
that they had been Gilian's. In her agony and
rage, Rachel burns the little garments she had
long cherished.

The End of the Story.

THE baby dies, and the gulf widens,. Rachel
regains her old power over Gilian. An uncle.
Reuben Curtis (Douglas Munro), writes and
offers Althea May a home
if she is unmarried. Be-
■ lieving Gilian no longer
loves her. and know-
ing that Rachel regrets
her son did not marry
Lueinda, she runs away.
A terrible scene follows ;
when Gilian discovers
his wife has gone, he
blames Rachel, and goes
out into the world to
seek Althea.

Althea is now the
petted heiress of Reu-
ben Curtis; she is flung
into the vortex of
London social life.

MARY RORKE.

Reuben wants to marry Lady Letty (Ruth
Mackay). She consents to do so if Althea
marries Cecil Coram (Lawford Davidson). When
Cecil Coram asks her to be his wife, Althea has
to confess she is already married. Reuben Curtis
ttirns her out. She goes back to the farm.
Gilian is still searching for her. Eventually
Rachel's heart is softened, and with Gilian's
return, new and abiding l>appiness comes to
Lyons Farm. Edith XnPEAK-

16 Picture Shoie, November 21(h, 1920.

A. Story of a Strange Legacy, and How a Backwoodsman Learnt the AfVays of Society.

WINIFRED
WESTOVER
as Caroline.

WILLIAM
S. HART
as John.

WHEN Hardwood John Haynes arrived in New
Orleans and stood outside the station. Tie
would have made a good photograph for a
comic paper, with the title, " Lost in a Big City."

Picture a man six feet in height with a wiry,
powerful body toughened by toil, and a face tanned
deep brown by sun and wind — a strong, handsome
lace, but the face of a child oi nature.

His clothes consisted of rough homespun, with the
trousers tucked into high boots. In his hand he
held an old-fashioned grip-bag, on his face was an
expression of utter and nervous bewilderment.
.1 ohn Haynes was just as much out of place in that
quickly moving throng a-s any of the well-dressed
city men would have been in the timber camp from
which he had just come.

The reason for Hardwood Haynes coming was
contained in a letter he had received from a lawyer,
telling him that his uncle had left him a legacy — the
land, building contents, and goodwill of a modiste's
bllOB.

Until well on his journey Haynes had not even
known what a modiste's shop was, and when, by
careful inquiry of a fellow-passenger be had learned
that it was a place where they sold ladies' frocks and
frills he had thought more than once of turning back.
But doggedness was John's strong point.

He determined to see the shop and then decide
what to do with his strange legacy.

He had the address, and after many directions he
got to the shop. But when Haynes saw the dainty
and alluring garments displayed in the windows he
stopped dearl at the door.

" No, I just couldn't do it," he muttered. " Face
them. girls inside with all that stuff hanging like
banners in the breeze ? No, Hardwood, you've got
l o t hink of some plan."

As he waited outside he caught sight of an old
gentleman of a very distinguished appearance
gazing sadly at a window filled with wax models
wearing gorgeous lace-trimmed gowns. As the
gentleman was about to cuter John Haynes went up
to him.

" Kxcuse me, sir," he said. " U you arc going in
there would you mind me coming in with you, for I
ain't got the courage to go in alone ? "

The gentleman smiled, and noticing the back-
woods dress of his questioner, guessed the reason.

" Certainly," he said politely.

Haynes stuck to the gentleman as he walked up
to a counter, though the flush of mortification showed
through his tan as he heard the undisguised titter of
the Shopgirls as he passed them. He stood behind
the gentleman as the latter, producing a paper on
which were written some measurements, asked to seo
a frock suitable for a young girl.

A good many were brought to him, and he at last
asked the price of one.

" .Ninety dollars," said the saleswoman.

A Hush passed over the gentleman's face.

" 1 am sorry I have given you so much trouble."
h • said, " but 1 haven't got so much money. Could
1 ask you to reserve the frock for me till later in the
day ? "

•• With pleasure, sir," replied the young lady.

When they got outside John Haynes suggested a
d ink. Somewhat bewildered, the gentleman con-
sented, and as they stood at the bar Haynes put
forward a proposition that had suddenly leapt to his
mind.

" Yon must excuse me, sir, but I couldn't help
ove hearing what you-said about not having enough
mo icy."

" That cannot concern you," said the gentleman
st i illy.

" Just hear me out, please," pleaded Haynes.

I've got very impor-
tant business in this
city, and I'm needing
a place to board at.
From what I've
heard, if I go to
one of t h e in big
hotels some clever
coon will get ms
sure. Would you
mind taking me as a
boarder, and sort of
looking after me ?
I'll pay just what
you ask and thank
you."

The stranger
frowned for a second,
and then the humour
of the situation ap-
pealed to him. That
he. Judge Clay Emer-
son Meredith, of one
of the oldest families
in the South should
be asked to take in
a boarder, and that
hoarder a rough
backwoodsman, was
too funny for words.

But then came the
thought how useful
the money would be.

Judge Meredith
was badly pressed for
money.

His granddaughter, Caroline, was leaving school,
and she had written asking him to buy her a frock
for a party to which she had b.'en invited, and it
grieved him greatly to think he might not be able
to raise the ninety dollars for the dress he had fixed
his mind on.

He looked up at the face of John Haynes.

There was something in it that appealed to him.

" One of nature's gentlemen," he thought as he
held out his hand.

" I will agree to your suggestion," he said. " because
I need the money ,"and also because I feel that I may
be of assistance to you in what business you have to
transact in the' city. 1 feel sure you will never give
me cause to regret taking you to my house."

" You may rely on that, sir," said Haynes.

The Judge then told Haynes his name, and men-
tioned the sum he would be willing to accept in return
for his hospitality.

Haynes took a wallet of notes from his pocket.

" And now, Judge, there is only one more favour I
wish to ask yon. Will you allow me to pay one month
in advance. 1 shall feel more comfortable like if
you will."

The Judge knew only too well that It was his
poverty that hail prompted Haynes to make the offer,
and he appreciated it.

" You have the instincts of a Southern gentleman,
Mr. Haynes, and I will take advantage of your kind-
ness. If you will wait for me I will complete the
purchase which my— er — lack of funds delayed."

The Paying Guest.

AND so It was that Hardwood Haynes became a
paying guest in Judge Meredith's house. By
the time Caroline Meredith came home John
Haynes, under the discreet but careful tutoring of
the Judge, had begun to shed much of his backwoods
roughness. He had begun to have faith in himself
to accomplish what he had determined to do once he
haj taken up residence with Judge Meredith— show
these city people that It was easier to learn the
conventions of society than it was to wield an nxe.

But when he saw Caroline all his eld shyness
returned.

She was a petite, golden-haired girl, with a fairy-
like figure, two dancing blue eyes, and a mischievous
mouth which -reminded Haynes of a rosebud just
opening its petals for the first time.

He felt just like a hired man in a drawing-room.

But to his great relief, Caroline did not appear to
notice his rough clothes or his awkward manners.

She talked to him about the subject* he knew best,
the big woods and the lonely spaces. When she left
him John Uavnes heaved a tremendous sigh.

" Gee I But I guess I wouldn't mind being a city
dude, if I thought it would please her."

But, with the coining of Caroline came another, to
whom Haynes took an Instinctive dislike.

He was a young man named Wayn^ Page, a hand-
some, well-dressed young man, who took little pains
to disguise the contempt he felt towards Haynes —
that is, when John was not present.

The backwoodsman decided that Page was a waster,
but he determined to take one lesson from him.

He meant to get some city clothes.

He broached the subject to the judge, and the
latter, who had been wondering how he could suggest
the same thing without offending Haynes, agreed to
act as his adviser.

And when John Haynes was arrayed In city garb
he certainly looked every inch a gentleman.

It was o'nlv when he began to talk that one would
have suspected that but a few weeks before he had
been felling big timber.

One night the Judge — who had in the meantime
come Into a decent sum from his shares in a company
which had suddenly begun to prosper after not
paying a dividend for years — gave a party.

Haynes was dressed in evening clothes, which
fitted his superb figure like a glove.

Caroline, who was the first to see him as he entered
the reception-room, ran up to him with real admira-
tion in her eyes.

" You'll be the lion of the evening, Mr. Haynes.
All the girls will fall in love with you, and the men
will be frightfully jealous," she burst out in her
girlish way.

John Haynes blushed and grinned sheepishly.

" It's good of you to say that. Miss Meredith," he
said, " but if you knew how I felt. Lcrdy 1 It seems"
to me it I move I shall burst something."

" Oh, no, you'll soon get over that feeling," laughed
Caroline. " Don't forget you must ask me for a
dance," she cried as she ran off to meet some of the
other guests.

The Dance-

JOHN HAYNES swelled with pride at her words-
Little did he think it was the pride that went
before a fall.

At the first opportunity he asked Caroline for a
dance.

If there was one thing Haynes was certain he could
do well it was dancing. Had he not been the best
dancer in the loggers' camp ?

But in the camp it was customary for the man to
dance a reel before taking his part ner, and poor John,
in his ignorance, imagined it would be the same now.

To the astonishment of the guests he shouted out to
the leader of the orchestra :

' " Say, mister I Can you play ' Turkey Show a
Leg ' ? And when the music began John set off
with a breakdown at a terrific speed.

So sure was he that he was scoring a great success
that he did not hear the giggles of the company ;
and as he went on not even the loud laughter of those
who could restrain themselves no longer reached his
ears.

He danced till the sweat ran down his cheeks, till
his white tie became undone and hung like a flag in
distress from his limp collar. Only when the band
stopped did Haynes stop.

Then, as he turned with smiling face to await the
applause, he felt that he could have dropped through
the floor. With the exception of the judge and
Caroline all the guests were doubled up with laughter.

" Idiot ! " he muttered. " You're sure the prize
fool."

As he stood there, not knowing how best to get
away, Caroline ran up to him.

" I guess my brand of dancing ain't been introduced
south yet," he said apologetically.

" Never mind, Mr. Haynes," said the girl loyally.
" I liked it, and you must teach me those steps
some time."

She placed her arm on his nnd tactfully guided hiu.
to where he could watch the dancing. And it was
Caroline's hands that re-tied his tie.

Haynes danced no more that night, but he watched
the others, and he determined to learn the society
style if it killed him.

All that night he turned the matter over in his
mind, nnd at last he thought of a plan.

He had seen the manager of his shop and arranged
with him to draw money as he needed it. While he
had been talking to the manager the girl who had
served the judge with the dress came in, nnd she had
been introduced to Haynes as Miss Kosalie Andre.

Incidentally he had learned that there was a
recreation room attached to the shop where the girls
learned to dance, and held occasional parties.

He determined to ask Miss Andre to teach him
dancing, and full of his resolve he visited the shop
the next morning and saw the girl.

He impressed upon her what he wanted, and added
that he did not want any of the other girls to know
he was the proprietor.

" But how shall I introduce you ? " said Rosalie.

" Couldn't, you say I was a poor relation 1 "
suggested John.

" I'm afraid that would not do," replied Miss Andre
with a smile. " I know, I'll say you arc the new
store detective."

she led him through the various departments an I
Introduced him. Haynes thought that some of them
seemed to recognise him, but if they did they said
nothing. -

When they got to the recreation-room there were a
number of girls present, but Haynes was determined
to learn to dance, if the whole world was looking on.

" Guess you'll find this funny, girls," he said, " bo
laugh If you feel that way. Don't mind me."

And laugh the girls did, but Haynes persevered
till, on looking round, he saw Wayne Page in Ut»
room. '

Then he stopped, and, thanking Rosalie, liegan to
think of getting out before Page could question him.

But by this time the girls lutd become interested in
the handsome stranger, and determined to have a
lark with him.

" Let's rush him in the lift nnd keep it working up
and down," said one. " I'll bet he's never been in a
lift before."

(Continued on page 18.)

Picture Show, November 21th, 1920.

THE EXPRESSIONS OF DORIS MAY. (Exclusive to the "Picture Show.")

DORIS MAY.

CHARMING little Doris May is a co-star with
• DougliiR MacLoan in Thomas H. Ince productions,
and whenever we see these two artistes on the screen
we can be quite sure of a delightful photo-play. Their
chief charm is their spirit of youth — Doris May and
Douglas Mac Lean are essentially onejs ideal of a modern
girl and boy.

Mr. Ince's Persuasive Powers.

DORIS MAY'S mother wos very much against her
daughter going on the films, but when Doris's
father died tin's sensible little girl felt that she
ought to do something to help (ill the family coffers, and

Tke Gifted Star Witk Many Accompltsk-
ments. Ranging From Music to Cooking.

sho thought she could do this l>ost by motion -picture
acting. Sho applied at the Jnce Studio, and it was Mr.
Inco who finally over-ruled all Mrs. May's objections, and
persuaded her to let her daughter join his company.

The Importance of Make-up.

WHEN Doris May applied ut tho studio, Mr. Inco
told her that she inust hnvo a tent. Poor Doris
did not know much about make-up, and her
hair was not quite right, so that when the test was run
off sho came on tho screen looking a fright. It does not
seem possible, does it, whon you think of pretty Doris
May ? Jt :« *

Mr. Ince, however, ordered the test to be done again,
and ho personally directed Doris' make-up. This time
she was so successful that she was immediately engaged
to net -with Charles Ray ; and now Doris has proved
that she chose the right profession, for she is a co-star
with Douglas MacLean.

These are some of the films in which these two have
acted : " Twenty-Three/ and a Half Hours' Leave,"
" What's Your Husband Doing ?" " Let's Be Fashion-
able," " Green Eyes," and " Playing The Game."

Literary Ambitions.

ONE would naturally imagine that Miss May
had reached the height of her ambition, but
no, this little star has other heights which
she wislies to scale.

Perhaps it is not surprising to learn that she
cherishes literary ambitions, since she is the
daughter of Willie Green, a sporting editor, while
her mother was a feature writer on a newspaper.

An All Round Sports Girl.

DORIS MAY confesses that she would rather
read than anything else in the world ; but
she is also an all-round sports girl. She
loves to go for a morning canter on her mare
" Strawberry," while she is a good tennis player
and swimmer, and not so very long ago she started
to learn golf. The reason for this was that in
one of the May-MacLean films, Doris had to play
golf, so Douglas offered to teach her.

She also lias a wonderful talent for music, and
is a splendid pianist.

They Knew What Was Good.

ANOTHER accomplishment of this gifted star
is cooking. During the making of a film
it was necessary to have bran muffins.
The property man had a difficult task — lie couldn't
find anybody who knew how to cook them.

Then Doris came to the rescue and cooked the
bran muffins herself. They were so delicious,
and a member of the cast happened to taste them
with disastrous results — they had very soon all
disappeared.

The scene that was to have been filmed had to be
delayed until the next day, and Doris had to do
more cooking. The director warned everj'Kbdy
in the company that they must not touch the
second batch, but he counted without " Teddy "
the dog. Teddy happened to find the muffins
and once more the plate was cleared. Doris had
to cook on still another day, but third time lucky !

A Short Description of This Pretty Star.

DORIS MAY has soft hazel eyes, and very light
brown hair with golden lights in it, and
she is only two inches over five feet in height.
She has an adorable lisp that is most fascinating.

If you wish to
write to her,
address your
letter —

DORIS MAY,

c/o Thos. H. Ince
Studio,

Culver City,

California,

U.S. A

Rather shy.

tz. _J

1 No nonsense, please I "

Appealing,

" I must think about it.

Picture Show, Xovcmber 21th, 1920.

"JOHN PETTICOATS." KCoZTtir

They made a laughing rush at Uaynes, and before
he knew what had happened he w;is in the lift.

Haynes had never been in a lift before, and an un-
reasoning fear took possession of him. He began to
shout for help, and as the steel cage dashed up and
down, he became really terrified. As he clutched the
latticed steel work of the door he caught sight of
Wayne Page.

" Get me out of this ! " lie shouted.

Wayne Page stopped the lift, and as Haynes
staggered out he grasped the young man by the hand.

You've saved my life," he gasped, " and if the
time ever comes when f can repay yon, yon can
bank ou Hardwood Haynes to do anything you ask."

The First Suspicion.

AS Haynes was going out of the shop he ran
into Caroline, who was doing some shopping.
" Whatever arc you doing here, Mr.
Haynes ? " she asked. -

John Haynes blushed furiously. He did not care to
tell Caroline that he had come to learn to dance,
" I'm shopping," he said awkwardly.
" Surely you don't shop at a ladies' store ? " said
Caroline.

And then, suddenly realising that Haynes was mis-
leading her, and that she was taking too great an
interest in the doings of one who was a comparative
stranger, she gave him a pleasant bow and was'
passing on when Haynes, anxious to put himself
right, added :

" I have started here as a store detective."

"A detective!" echoed Caroline, in a tone which
told that she did not think much of Haynes's choice
of jobs. Then with another bow she left him.

John Haynes walked back to Judge Meredith's
house in a very miserable state of mind.

He had made a fool of himself before all the girls
in the store ; had put himself under an obligation to
Wayne Page : and he felt that Caroline despised him
because she thought he was a spy in a store.

As he neared the home he saw Rosalie Andre out-
side the gates. The girl was evidently in trouble, and
as he got nearer Haynes couM see she had been
crying. As Haynes moved forward with the intention
of asking what was the matter, Rosalie started to
walk away. •

Haynes followed her, and as they neared the
landing-stage of the river he saw to his horror that
Bosalio was making for the edge of the jetty. He
started to run, but before he could reach her liosalie
had thrown herself in the water.

John Haynes dived in after her, and after a struggle
got her to the bank.

Rosalie was only semi-conscious and as she looked
up into his eyes and clasped htm round the neck she
said in a heart-broken voice :

" Wayne dear. You won't leave me now, will
you ? "

In a flash the terrible truth came to John Haynes.
Wayne Page was Rosalie's lover, and he had deceived
her and then left her in order to marry Caroline.

By this time a number of people had come up, and
Rosalie was placed in a vehicle and taken to the
hospital. After seeing that she was being well
looked after, Haynes began to think what was the
best thing to do. At last he determined to tell Wayne
Page exactly what had happened.

He found Page at the judge's house, and without
any beating about the bush, he said :

" Miss Andre tried to commit suicide this evening.
Does that mean anything to you ? "

" What should it mean 1 " replied Page in a
blustering voice, but Haynes saw him change colour.

" I mean that you will go to the hospital in the
morning and take a minister with you," said John.

The next morning Haynes went to the hospital, and
to his horror learned that Rosalie had died during
the night from shock following exposure. In a very-
sad mood he returned to Judge Meredith's to find that
the judge had read the report of Rosalie's suicide.

" I wish to speak to you and Wayne Page about
this affair," said the judge. " Last night I over-
.heard you two men quarrelling, and this poor girl's

This unusual picture was snapped by an intrepid photographer who climbed up into the beams of the
Goldwyn Studio, while "Fans," the eighth ol Booth Tarkington's " Edgar " comedies, was being hlnieck and
pointed his camera downward. The photograph shows the director telling Johnny Jones and the other
actors what to do. The whole gives an excellent idea of how the movies are made.

name was mentioned. I have sent for Mr. Page.
Ah, here he is."

The judge repeated what he had said to Haynes,
and then, addressing the two young men, said :

" I await an explanation."

John Haynes was about to tell the whole truth ol
the matter when Page, in a whisper, reminded hin.
about the bond he had given when he had rescued
him from the lift.

No other man, probably, would have regarded hi-
word as binding in such circumstances, but Hardwood
John Haynes came from a country where a nun'-
word was sacred. He remained silent, and the
judge, taking his silence to mean a confession ol
guilt, told him to leave the house.

Haynes's one thought now was to get away from
the city as soon as possible. He went (straight to Ms
shop and, calling the manager got him to draw up a
document making the establishment over as a deed
of gift to Judge Meredith.

While they were thus engaged, there came a tele-
phone message from the judge saying that Haynes
was to return to his house at once.

When he arrived Haynes found that his innocence
had been proved by a letter Rosalie had written to
her mother, in which she said that she did not wish
Wayne Page to be punished, as it was as much her
fault as his.

" Why did you keep silent when you could have
cleared yourself ? " asked the puzzled judge.

John told him about the lift incident, aud how he
had pledged his word to Page, and then he added :

" Besides, I figured that you and Miss Caroline
would sooner believe it of me than of the man she is
going to marry."

" You don't suppose, I would allow my daughter
to marry Page after this, do you ? " said the judge.
" I have ordered that man out of the houseV&rKl tie.
will never return here. But there is something I can
tell you which ought to iuterest you. Before all this
happened Page proposed to Caroline, and she refused
him. And, sir, if you have not been quite blind, you
might guess the reason."

" I may be slow, judge, but I think I get your
meaning. I'm going to find Miss Meredith right now."

And when, an hour later, the judge saw his daughter
and John Haynes walking in the garden, even his old
eyes could see in .the happy smiles on their faces that
Caroline's answer had been " Yes."
U Adapted from incidents in the Parammint-Art-
craft photoplay, jeaturi>\g William 6'. Hart an
John. - liy permission.)

"Manacled By Money." {ContJZe9 :>"""
— . _ —

ashamed' of himself, but that fact only made
him aggressive.

" You had no rkdit to listen." he said, eyeing
his cousin very steadily. " You do not seem
aware of it, but it is simply not done by the
people I associate with."

"You young cub ! When 1 want you to
teach me "

Arth;;r went towards the boy threaterfingly.

Harry threw off his coat.

"You co bach into the house, Grace. I'll
follow you w hen I have finished w ith this follow,''
he said carelessly.

The eirl glanced with big. frightened eye*
from the man to her companion, aud thou she
spoil away.

Harry rushed forward, and Arthur found
himself in the position of having to defend
hi m sol f.

A sharp blow betwoen the eyes made him
renli.-e suddenly what he was up ncninSt.

Arthur was no fighter. Harry had it com-
pletely his own way, and nfter a few minutes
Arthur had to own to an i-iuominious defeat.

He saw the contemptuous smile on the boy's
lips as he turned on his heel, and after picking
up his coat, sauntered off whistling in bravado
as ho went.

Arthur picked himself up from the ground.
Ho was furiously angry. Never sinco his boy-
hood's days had he been so debased.

All the bad blood which had lain dormant
for years rose up within him. All las good
intoi.tions towards his cousin were swept aside.

" I will punish him for this ! " he sa:d man-
evolently, under his breath.

It did not help matters when the storv cot.
about. Arthur had to hide his bruised foes
from nn inrniisitive world. Even his own
servants sniggered when they saw the marks1
that Hnrry's fi«t hud 'left.

" You be marked, sure, .u'r." the cook bail
taollessly remarked. And she received ft
month's notice on the spot.

A few days lator Arthur received a letter
from his lawyer.

Cecil Rae was going to dispute tho will in a
court of law.

(Another ip'endid ini:alment n •» • 1

Picture Show, November 27th, 1920.

i 'J

THE LITTLE HOUR OF PETER WELLS.

GRANGER— BINGER PRODUCTION.

THIS photo-play, adapted from David Whitelaw's novel of the same name,
presents a combination of romance and everyday fact that is somewhat
rare in screen plays. It is tho story of a little Cockney cleric who finds
himself suddenly embroiled in the revolutionary "activities of a small foreign
kingdom. For a little while— a glorious hour of crowded life— Peter Wells
plays a man's part in a world of men, to retire gracefully and somewhat
heroically at its close. Tho story is typified by the well-known lines of
Dryden the poet :

:* Not Heaven itself to take the past has power,
What has been has been — and 1 hace had my hour."

From the first moment when we ore shown Peter Wells cycling to his work in
the early morning we follow the adventures of the little clork with interest.
The discovery of the wounded pierrot — a late reveller from the fancy dress ball
at Covent Garden— lying behind a crate of oranges in the market, plunges our
humble hero into all manner of high adventures. For Peter Wells there is to be
the glamour of courts, the flash of rapiers, the clash of arms and the smiles
of women. For a short period the little clerk drinks deep at the cup of life, and
then . . . back to the humdrum existence, an existence to be for evermore
sweetened by memories.

It is interesting to note that David Whitelaw, the author of the book, is also
the author of the story version of Griffith's great film spectacle, " Hearts of the
World." . , '

The picture in the top right-hand corner of this page shows ono ot the
most striking scenes of the play — a duel between Captain Faroa and Pranco
Below Mr. Hebden Foster and Miss Heather Thatcher as the hew King and
Queen of Bragalia.

To the old King of Bragalia, dogs are more important than his subjects

The warning of revolution reaches the Convent of the Sacred Thorn.

Piclun Show, Xotcmbcr 27th, 1920.

PHYLLIS SHANNAW

The Nineteen-Year-Old" British Actress
Who Won Fame in her First Picture-

PHYLLIS SHANNAW.

Photo: Basil.

IF you read a novel
in which a girl
of nineteen, with
no previous film ex-
perience, was starred
in her Sreit picture,
and starred with
such results that
she literally became
famous overnight, I
would not mind bet-
ting the modest sum
111 receive for tliis
interview, thatyou'd.
put the book down
with a snort, re-
marking, " W hat
n o nsen se ! Such
things happen 0:ly
in books ! Necer in
real life ! "

Yet such things do hfippen sometimes — rarely,
1 11 admit, but sometimes — in real life. They
happened in the case of Phyllis Shannaw, heroine
of The Call of the Road," the British film which
created such a sensation upon its presentation
to the Trade and Press, that in twenty-four
hours it was the talk of London.

How She Was "Found."

MISS SHANNAW told me the story of her
meteoric rise to fame a few days after that
fame had become an accomplished fact.
She told it with freshness and modesty, for she
herself is fresh and mo:lest ; very like the sort
of girl wc " palled " with at school — lithe,
athletic, even freckled ! with a mop of wavy,
reddish hair, blue-grey eyes, and a pretty, but
not absurdly small, mouth.. A thousand miles
from the clinging, sugary -sweet type of ingenue.

" Contrary" to some reports, I had never
appeared in a film in my life when I first cam<- to
t he notice of Mr. I. Bernard Davidson," said Miss
Shannaw. " Only in a little skelch on the halls.
But I had sent my photo in to Mr. Sydney Jay,
the film agent, and it was at his office that Mr.
Davidson happened upon it — just by chance,

IN THE DRESSING-ROOM.

EVERY picturegoor lias felt thrilled at some
time or other by the performance of one
or more of t he cinema actresses. Perhaps
her acting was wonderful, perhaps her beauty
was striking ; but if you stop to analyse the
matter you will, more often than not, have to
admit that it was her wonderful expression that
charmed and held you most of all. And it is
the same the whole world over. Beauty is
lovely to gaze upon, but without a pleasant
expression it lacks half its charm.

A Love of Pleasure.

IT -is surprising to noto how many girls assume
| a disagreeable or indifferent expression of
faeo from sheer laziness. Just at the age
when life should bo a joy to them they allow
their minds to resent everything that is not for
their personal pleasure. And particularly does
this apply to the modern girl, who is always on
the look-out for some amusement. Theso girls
assume a blqsc, stolid expression of countenance
which only belongs to women hardened by
extrome misfortunes and continuod disappoint-
ments.

No girl should assumo such an expression.
It was not jnit there by Naturo. She may be a
little less kind to some than to others in the
way of features, but it is up to each and every
girl to mako the best of the charms she has, be
they -ever so minute.

Adopt a Happy Expression.

IV a girl looks at the world as her enemy,
bocauso everything she wishes for is not
handed out to her immediately, sho will
cultivate a disagreeable expression of features
that will grow harder and uglier with years.
Even though your nose is not just the shnpo you
would like it to be, nor your lips a perfect Cupid's
bow, you can make them appear far prettier
by adopting a happy expression. Pleasantness
will cover all disfiguring features. Love and

you know, but how luckily for me ! Mr. David-
son, it seems, had been wanting to give the
British public something in the way of a picture
which should be a departure fiom t lie type of
film imported from America — something show-
ing a typical aspect of British life in a regular
British setting : and to this end Mr. A. E.
Coleby, who is his producer, as well as being a
fine actor himself, had written the scenario of
" The Call of the Road," but they had not been
able to find just the girl they -wanted for the

heroine. And then "

" Then they found you."

" Well, thej- found ray photo." laughed M:ss
Shannaw, "and then speedily found me, by
requesting an interview, and next, a film test.
I went to the studio, where J i\as dressed in the
old-time costume of the. heroine, and then had up
for Mr. Davidson's and Mr. Coleby 's inspection.
How awful I felt, not knowing where to look or
what to do. especially as they wondered whether,
in the first place, I was tall enough for the part,
considering I am only about 5 ft. 4 ins, and had
to play opposite such a giant as Mr. MacLaglcn,
who is six feet two or three ! But they got over
that difficulty by piling my hair high on my head,
and after a little more careful consideration, .1
was allowed to go, with ■ the promise that I
should receive their decision as soon as possible.

It came a few day 3 later, and "

*' How did you feel ?" I broke in, fired by the
sparkle in Miss Shannaw's eyes. ■

" Ob, awfully excited ! It seemed too good
to be true ! And yet, although I was without
experience, somehow I felt I could carry the
part through all right if I were given the
chance I" (Did I say that Miss Phyllis is a very
determined young lady ?)

The Producer's Genius.

UT despite her determination to " make
good," and the feeling she hail that she
could and would do so, no one is more
astonished at the success of Miss Shannaw's
film debut than Miss Shannaw herself. In fact;
she does not attribute her success to her own
talents at all, but rather to those of Mr. Coleby,

Facial Expression —
H ow to b

Really

kindness in your heart will
imprint beauty upon your
face, for your expression
changes with your thought s.
If you resent what gifts you
have, a scowl droops your
eyes and wrinkles your fore-
head ; while oil possible
prettiness of mouth will be
ruined by its down-turned
corners. " If you simply
don't care, an unpleasant
countenance will be the
result.

Exert a Little Effort.

I HAVE heard crowds of
girls bemoan the _
fact that thoy arc not,-*'
beautiful ; yet they do w
not in any wny ondoavour
tomake even the best of
themselves. Perhaps
they resort to powder and
cosmetics for the beautifica-
t ion of their appearanco.'but
thoy entirely forget that
such applications cannot bo
expected to alter their
appearance to any great
extent. Comploxion camou-
flages are very* helpful, but
thoy will not do everything.
Ploasant thoughts, a happy
disposition, and the desire
to please others, imprints
itself upon the features as
well- as upon the mind, and
goes very, very far to
beautify an othorwise plain
face. * As a well-known
cinema star remarked, only
the other day : " Beauty is

No. 28,455.

A smart little wrap coat
ot fawn blanket cloth,
checked with brown and
mauve, specially de-
signed by the Editress
ot HOME FASHIONS.

whom she considers " one of the best producers
in England."

" Whatever effects he wan ts from on? he brings
out so naturally that the result cannot help being
natural. I think he is a genius, and I'm parti-
cularly glad for his sake that the film has already
proved a success."

,** You must have been very thrilled by its
reception at the Trade show," I suggested.

" My heart was pumping like this." confessed
Miss Shannaw. with an expressive gesture. " I
felt, awful, not knowing how the public would
receive an absolutely unknown player, and even
when the audience seemed to like me, and the
ordeal was over, I still felt awful, for then the
pressmen came crowding round to ask me
questions, and I didn't know a bit what to
say ! Could only blurt out how glad 1 was to
have been given such a chance, and how de-
lighted I was that the picture had been well
received."

Remaining in Films,

MISS SHANNAW was educated at Went-
worth Hall, Mill Hill, and I was much
interested to hear that one of her school
; chums was Vera Beresford; daughter of Kitty
Gordon. In those days Phyllis intended to take
up a stage career, and she and Vera (who
cherished a like, ambition), would discuss tho.
possibilities of the profession between tennis sets.
Vera, Phyllis thought, stood a much bettei
chance of success than she did, in view of hei
mother's position on the boards, but anyway —
Phyllis toik up dancing, singing and elocution
studies at the Guildhall, and just hoped that
one day her chance would come.

" But since it has come in pictures I intend
remaining in pictures, if the public -will have
me, and have given up all thought of the 'stage."
she told ine. "I do hot think one can combine
the two. For the present I am continuing
with Mr. Davidson and Mr. Coleby, and my ambi-
tion is to do better and better with every picture
I make !"

Here's wishing ycu luck. Phyllis I

JLav Herschel Clarke.

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not only skin deep : it starts at the heart." An 1
a little thought over the matter will convince
you that his philosophy^Is correct. I No woman
can be beautiful unless her mind is equally
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go about with a long face and groan over
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and worry over every minute trouble in your
life. Put a bright face to the world, and do
your' best to overcome all obstacles. Thus
will you acquire a charm and beauty that
is preferable to perfect features and that will
gain for you more frionds and happiness than a
mere pretty face.

Remember that Nature gave you your
features, and that she also gave you the mind
to guide them to beauty or ugliness.

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printed in check pattern and show the
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Fawn backgrounds, for instance, with brown
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The Picture Girl has a very smart coat ol
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brown and mauve, and so that the effect of the
fabric shall not be lost she has chosen a simple
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form revere,, and join to a large collar.

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ricture Show, November 27</», 1920.

laQHEL MYERS

r\\o Cried her "Way to Fame.

IT might be said tliut beautiful Carinol Myers cried
herself to fame.

When D. W. Griffith, tlio famous producer, asked
lior if she would like to act for tlio pictures under his
direction, she gazed up at him, nnd her lips Ijegan
to quiver. She was so overcome because she realised
that (ho big c-hnnce which comes to most people onco
in a lifetime, had come to her, that she burst into tears.

It was a strange thing that later on, when another
director wanted her to cry for a film, sho just could not
do it until she ran to her mother, and told her that sho
simply couldn't cry, and then and there the tears began
to flow. Her mother immediately pushed her back in
front of the camera beforo they ceased to flow once moro.

Fond of Motoring.

Carmel is very fond of motoring, and it is said that at
her home the chauffeur has a very easy timo, because
Miss Myers nearly always insists upon driving herself.

A Few of Her Films.

Carmel Myers is one of the most versatilo screen
artistes. You may have seen her in some of these
films : " Sirens of the Sea," " The Dream Lady," " A
Society Sensation," " The Haunted Pyjamas," " The
Little Wliite Savage."

Picture Show, November 21th, 1920.

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IN one of the first chats I had with Charlie
Chaplin, I remember him saying :

'" Tho trouble with me is that I am so
changeable."
■ This explains to a great extent the puzzled
bewilderment of so many who have met him.
They find it so difficult to reconcile the Chaplin
they think they know with the Chaplin other
people have met, or, what is often the greater
puzzle; with the many different variations
of Chaplin they have encountered in print.

Yes, Chaplin is changeable ; but change
spells progress, so I think he has little cause
to bewail the fart. His inherent restlessness,
his eager enthusiasms, his quick receptiveness
urge him on an eternal quest of fresh impressions
and wider knowledge. Thistype of self-education
tends to make of a man either a genius or a
wastrel. The ultimate result depends entirely
upon the man himself and the use he makes
of his powers of selection. The whole of Chaplin's
eager quest of knowledge is a passionate desire
to understand the meaning of Life and i'-3
relation to his fellow-men.

The sure instinct that guide3 him in hU
erratic pursuit of knowledge, in a flirtation
with some new hobby or intellectual " diver-
tissement," is, in his ease, a vital and character-
building quality, inasmuch as it has given him
wider interests and a broader outlook on life
and humanity, without ever allowing one
branch of knowledge to become an intellectual
obsession.

A good many people labour under the im-
pression that Chaplin is rather an ignorant
sort of fellow. He is eutirely self-educated,
and yet his knowledge would shame many a
man who has been through public school
and college. He can talk on any subject,
and talk well. This surprised me, for I had
been led to believe that he was shy and rather
inarticulate. He has rend every book worth
reading, and confesses that he does not care
for Beethoven interpreted by a French orchestra.

His Gift of Expression.

TUB other day he showed me a picture
lie had recently purchased from one
of America's leading landscape painters.
It was the most exquisite nocturne I have
ever seen on canvas — two ghostly poplars
against the soft grey* of a moonlit sky.

"Isn't it beautiful ? " he said. "It's so quiet
and peaceful, it makes yuu want to whisper."

And I thought at the time no art critic, how-
ever eloquent, could have
conveyed the atmosphere of
that exquisite picture in
more suitable words.

I have waxed discursive
on the suhjeet of Chaplin's
mentality, because it is an
aspect of his character that
deserves appreciation, since
it is one of I he fundamental
secrets of his success. It
would, however, be alto-
gether wrong to leave the
impression that he is some
spccie9 of " high-brow "
pure and simple.

Chaplin may have the
mind of a restless philo-
sopher, but he is essentially
a boy at heart. Kvery boy
is a born mimic, and
Chaplin, in a reminiscent
mood, is the most dcliahtful
raconteur in the world.

Charlie and Sir Herbert
Tree.

HIS description of his
first meeting with
Sir Herbert Tree is
one of his favourite stories,
and I shall always regret
that it enjoys so restricted
a circulation. At tlint time
Tree was in Los Angeles,
collaborating with 1>. W.
Griffith in a screen version
of " Macbeth." Chaplin's

description of the meeting runs something liko
this :

" I was ushered into his room, and found
him with another gentleman, discussing hia
new picture. He loomed before me, larg-j
and impressive, and greeted me in an absent-
minded sort of way,

" ' Mr Chaplin — ah, yes ! Wonderful success
you've had ; yes, wonderful !'

" Then followed some vague sweepings of
the arms, and I found myself involved in the
possibilities of witches and wind-swept heatli-s.
Just as suddenly lie broke off, remembered
an appointment with Griffith, and murmured
something about his ' little Iris 1 entertaining
me till his return. I am fond of children, but.
when a young lady about six feet in height,
very modern and self-possessed, suddenly
dawned on my vision, I nearly eollapspd."

I think Charlie enjoys telling these storios
every bit as much as his audience does listening
to them.

To Write a Play.

I ASKED Chaplin the other day whether
the rumour was true that he contemplated
a visit to the Old Country.
"I'd love to see it again," he mused; "but
if I go. 1 want it to be something definite
that calls me there. Truth to tell." he said,
with a little touch of shyness, " I want to
write a play, and I want to produce it in
England."

Yes, he owned, he'd long been cherishing
the thought of \vriting a play — a really serious
play on a deep psychological problem.

" I've been carrying the idea about with
me for over two_ years now," he said ; then
laughed.- " Tunny sort of psychology thaf
would turn out to bo ! Strange, isn't it ! "
lie reflected, growing thouchtful again in a
minute. " We always want to do the thines
we were never intended to do; and we're never
satisfied with our own little gift. I shall never
write that play, you know ; I'm too restless,
too changeable, and — oh, well, 1 guess I can't
even write ! ™

Chaplin is still climbing. One of these days
he may attain that summit to which every man
aspires; from which " we view the world and
find it is well-designed."

And then he will give us that play.

Elsie Codd.

Charlie's desire for change leads him to ride a velocipede, although he
looks far from happy on the shaky machine.

■ J'ivtare Kfiolf, Xoitirbu- 2~lh, 1920.

FINDING FAULTS IN FILMS.

I koKmcI that just, before Mftr. Lippott had
forced Judy- in " Dadity Long-Lc^H "—to put
her finger on tho stove when she turuod round
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RUSHING THE FILM.

THERE are times when the failure to enjoy a film
entertainment may not be due to the quality of
the pictures screened or the manner in which
the programme has teen arranged. For even a good
picture can be spoilt, and a poor one made seemingly
worse, by rushing it through on the screen at a speed
which renders any appreciation of either utterly
impossible. It is one of those old grievances of which
the public still has cause to complain, though there
should be no reason fcr its existence at the present day.

A recent instance is that mentioned by a corresporf-
dent who visited a West End of London picture theatre
the other night during the last showing of the pro-
gramme. It struck him, he states, as though the
operator's main desire was to rush through each
picture as quickly as he could and get home. Scenes
were flashed on and off the screen so quickly that
they merged into one another before there was time
for the audience to grasp the connection between
them. Several of the sub-titles were treated in the
same way. One picture, " The Canyon Hold-Up," a
Western drama, depicted towards the close of the
story the chase of the villain up a steep and rugged
incline. But the speed at which both pursuers and
pursued were shown clambering up its surface would
have been humanly impossible in actual life. Another
correspondent from Salisbury touches on the same
point. " Who is to blame," he asks, " for pictures
being shown too fast ? The other day I saw an otter
hunt in which the people were shown as walking at
least ten miles an hour ; while an old man of about
seventy, who was following, was tearing along as if
he were seventeen. In fact, the whole programme
was shown too fast."

It's a pity these things should happen. Apart from
the fact that the enjoyment of the audience is spoilt,
the attempt to make the incidents in a picture real is
destroyed by introducing an absurd rapidity of action
when screening them.

THE EDITOR.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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Editor, " Picture Show," Room 85, The Fleetway
House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C. 4.

D. B. (Hastings).— Clara Weith was the star in the
film " Scaled Lips." bill 1 cannot find any other nami -
mentioned in the cast. In " Think It. Over," Catherine
Calvert was Alice, and Uncle Henry whom -lie
in irried in the picture was Richard Tucker.

" Cei ll.OY " (Wynberg). — " Oh. That Kiss "
featured Suzanne Grandais. In "Trey o' Hearts,"
Cleo Madison and George WatMns were the leads,

while in " The Lone Wolf " Hie chief parts were taken

l>3 Berl Lytetl and Hazel Dawn. Of the ladies you
mention, there is only one who tells us her birthday,
namely, Gladys Cooper, on December 18th.

Hi K. (Heudon). Vou apologise for asking only
two questions. Why. there are some folk who ,-i-k
about twenty-two, and then seem filled with regret
that they cannot thhfk of any more. But. I. live
through it, somehow. Helen Ware, who appeared in
the film version of " The' Garden of Allah," was bom
in San Francisco. Jack Dean, husband of Fanny
Ward, was born in Washington in 1880.

!'. S. (Royton).- -The part of Mary Dawson in
" Jilaekie's Redemption " was taken by Alice Lane.

('. S. H. (Stroml Green). — Write to your favourites.
You may have some luck in that. way. Eileen Sedg-
wick is the wife of .T. H. McCloskey, and Eddy Polo
is married to Pearl Grant.

P. A. M. (Great Grimsby); — Yes, Eileen Dennes is
English, and was hi musical comedy for some time
before starting her career on the films. ■ The part of
1 iid Kill in " The Better 'Ole " m* tak.-n by the late

Charles Roek.

" British Film LOVRS " (Carlisle).— So you don't
think that Gregory Scott, with such delightful dimples
as he has, ought to take a villain's part. I hope he
will think that over for the .sake of his.dimples.. . He
was Reiit Gordon in "Tho Great Coup,", and tin-
only other names in my printed east are those of
Pobpy Wyndbarrj as Kate Hampton^ Cameron Carr
(Richard Floxton), and Stewart Rome (Squire
Hampton). Yes, Doris Stay was formerly Doris
Lcc, and at a much earlier period in her life she was
known to friends and relations as Helen Garrett.
This young lady is now eighteen, and is the possessor
of brown eyes and golden hair.

Gladys (Croydon).— You could write t.o your
favourite by following the instructions in the Personal
Column, even if you do not find the addrss. Mean-

while, I offer you willingly this little piece of informa-
tion about him. His name is John Gliddon, and
'twas he who played as Kenneth Wayne in " The
Sands of Time." Two other pictures of his are :
" The Temptress," and " The Dawn of Truth." His
height is 5 ft, 10.V in.

HAZEL (Sydenham).— Alec Francis was with Mabel
Normand in " When Doctors Disagree." In " The
Manxman." Elisabeth Risdon was Kate Creegan,
Ted Groves (Pete), and Henry Ainley (Phillip). I
don't remember the old film you mention, but 1 will
trj and dig it up.

RUBY (.Folkestone), Caledonia (Bowness). Gladys
(London. S.W.I. G. O. McL. (Wolverhampton), M. R..
(Caithness*, S. V. ft. (Haslemer.-l. " Cakiad " (He re-
ford), E. Y. (Weston-super-Mare),- BETTY {Clifton),
and " Two MARYS " t'Hojiand).— In answer to all
your questions, Frank Wilson was in " Social Briars";
Gareth Hughes and Bliss Milford were the leads in
" And the Children Pay ; " Teddy Sampson opposite
Tom Mix in " Fighting for 1 iold " : 1 atlierine Calvert
in " The Career of Catherine Bush " ; Mary Pickfoid
is twenty-seven; Vivian Martin was born in 1898;
' Tom Mix. aged thirty-nine, is married -to 'Victoria
Fordo; David Powell opposite Billie 'Burked in
" Gloria's Romance " and The Make-Believe Wile ":
Henry Edwards does hot state in 1 what part of
Weston-super-Mare he was born ; Fliigrath Ms the
real name of Viola Dana and Shirley Mason ; Roland
Bottomley in " The Neglected Wife."

" Pat " (Newmarket).— Are you thinking of " The
Secret of the Storm Country " ? If so, Norma
Talmadgc was the heroine. - Yes. Raymond Bloomer
was in " The Woman of Impulse," and other plavs of
his are: " Out of a Clear Sky," " The Prodigal Wife."
and "The Belle of .New York." He was born in
Rochester. New York, is of dark complexion, and is
ti ft. in height. Glad to hear your favourites nave
replied. - - - •

D. S. K. (Billfold). — Your insatiable thirst for
film knowledge leaves me gasping.- Each -letter of
yours seeks information about so many different
plays and players that I never. know where to start
first. You had better get one of the trade papers
if you wish to know all about the new films you men-,
tion. 1 am sorry I have no information respecting
them at the moment. Some Of Mary Miles Minter's
pictures are : " The Eyes of Julia Deep." X Social
Briars," " The Ghost of Rosic Taylor," " Wives and
Other Wives," and " Rosemary Climbs IJie Heights "
J. B. (Lichfield). — You ask me to tell you who. in
my opinion, is the more beautiful of the two. Pea ej
.White or Knth Roland. That is rather a. delicate
ta.-k, so I think 1 will leave It- to' you. The, ca-( of
" Dangerous Waters " ( which so appropriately follows
your first question) is: William Desmond (Jluimie
Moulton 1, Marguerite Do La Motto (Cora Button),
Arthur Carcw (Victor De Lara), Beatrice La Planto
(Nanette), Ida Lewis (Mr?. Burton).' Walter Berry
(DJnny O'MoorO, William P. De Vault (Judson).
Chrissic White has golden hair. Sorry I am- unable
to oblige with the other information or you would be
welcome to it. - - ■

. " Patience " (Birmingham).— If you. good reader,
with such a precions virtue will look through your
back numbers again, you will tind that Grace Gunard
has never been stated in this paper jis "Francis Fordls
wife. Grace, in fact, is already Jilarfled to Joe'Moore.
Perhaps you were thinking of some film ? Warner
' Gland was the villain in " Patria." Lillian McCarthy
was opposite Matheson Lang in " Mr. Wu," but the
other part is not njentioncd.

" sciittik " (Inverness).— Pleased bo know this
page interests you so much. (i. Raymond Nye was
the artiste you ask) trie. itbflut in'". Broken Coinmand-
meiits." You j\ill liud the corn et ages of the throe
Talmadgc Sisters given in their interestiiig life story.
< >nce upon a time someone told me a fairy tale— which,
alas ! I Relieved^ -that' Natalie was the youngest.
Kui tlrAt is really Constance's place, for Natalie comes
next to Norma. • "

" Ansa Q." (Bournemouth).— Pray seek not my
pardon, for, what would 1 do if it were not "for curious
folk like you. , Atmu Q. Nilsson is married, but her
husband's name has hot been revealed' to me as yet.

Her hair is blonde, and her eyes are blue, and her
height is 5 ft. Z in. She was born in Ystad, Sweden,
and went to America in 1907. " Her screen career was
started four'years later.

R. G. (Sydenham). — You and your two friends
below, from Sydenham, are all welcome. In " Sage
Brush Hamlet," the ladv opposite William Desmond
was Marguerite De La Motte. The leads in " The
Eternal City " were taken by Pauline Frederick, and
Thomas Holding. I am afraid your grumble about
the other paper does not concern me. There are only
two film papers connected with this, the " Boys'
Cinema " and the " Girls' Cinema," which, with the
Picture Show are the three best that money can
buy. .

BERYL (Sydenham). — In " Secret Service " the
leads were Wanda Hawley and Robert Warwick.
The east of the " Purple Dress " is as follows : Agnes
Ayres (Maida), Adele De Garde (Grace), Evart
Overton (Ramsay )» Richard Wangeman (Bacbmann),
Mrs. Beck (Mrs. Bachmaun), and Bernard Siegel (Old
-Abrams).

J. L. (Swanage).— It was William Dyer in " Early
to Bed," and he is evidently one of the retiring sort,
for I cannot get out of him as yet the information you
want. I will have to wake him up.

E. J. H. (Exeter). — You have seen seven o£ Jack
Holt's pictures so far. You have not done so Glad.
I give you these at random, as I do not know which of
his films you have seen. " The Woman Michael
Married," Treasure Island," " A Sporting Chance,"
" The Woman Thou Gavest Me," " The Call of the
East," " The White's Man's Law," " The Honour
of his House," and " The Best of Luck." He was
born in Winchester, Va., but docs not state, his age. ;

Lillian (Tooting). — So " The Right Element "
was partly filmed just outside your own house. 1
am sorry I am unable to tell you just now when it
will be released in your locality. Evelyn Nesbit has
appeared in the following, among others : " Her
Mistake," " Redemption," " The Woman Who
Gave," and " I Want to Forget."

Nessie (Edinburgh). — What has set you imagining
that such articles as " Hints to the Engaged Girl,"
etc., are likely to appear in this paper '! I am glad
you like it, though, and you will tind it will improve
with age. Jack Ho.xie is an American, for he was
born in Oklahoma, and his age Is twenty-four.
Harrison Ford was born in Kansas City, Mo., in 180::.

B. R. (Wynberg). — Photos of film artistes who are
dead would be of no general interest now. Besides
which, there are so many living ones to be considered.
Yes, Katherine MacDonald and Mary MacLaren are
sisters. MacDonald is the tatter's real name. Cullen
Landis was opposite Mabel Normand in " I'pstairs."

A. K. (Whipps Cross). — When you see tho artiste-'
lips moving on the screen, it means that they have
actually spoken during the production of the picture
as required.- You will notice that it is often possible
to tell the words formed by their lips.

"Fj.lFFY" (Reading). — You find by reading this
page that somebody else always does the thinking
for vou by asking the very questions you thought
of sending me. Well, that's saved you a lot of
postage, hasn't it ? Charles Bryant never told me
what made him go to America. His height is 6 ft. 3 in.
He has no children, as far as 1 know.

" TISH " (Harrogate). — Don't Ik> terrified, " Tish."
You appear to have read the rules (there arc only two
•■mall lots, one above and one below these answers I
all right. The only folk who don't read the rules arc
those who impress it on me that they have taken in
this paper every week since it first came out : So
vou like Milton Sills. " The .Claw " "The Savage
Woman," and " The Wild Cat " are three of his
pictures; and hi< wife is Gladys Wynne.

1). K. (Wimbledon). Peggy llyland i> now acting
for Samuelson's in this country, and her contract
■with Fox wa- ended some time ago. She does not
disclose her age.

G R. iDefhi). -You have, got me a few more
readers. I thank vou. and wish you still more luck
in the same line. I haven't turned grey-haired yet.
IfT do, sonu body's sure to send me samples ot hnir-
dve whirji 1 don't want. Helen Holmes is twenty-
seven. G. M. Anderson (Broncho Billy) is now
producing. • .„,._. 1

" Wt'FFlE " (York).- That second him of yours is
very vorv old, but if it is possible to discover it
1 Will lii " The Birth of a Nation" the following,
took part ; Mae Marsh. Miriam Cooper, Constance
Talmadgc, Henry Walthall. Lillian Gish, Robert
Harron. Josephine Crowell, Frank Bennett, Marjone
Wilson, Bessie Love, and Seena Owen.

(More answers next ueeh.)

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SKow.

No. 47.-MARJORIE VILLIS.

MAR JOB IE VILLIS, the clever British
actress whom we see playing opposite
James Knight in many Harma photo-
plays, enjoys reading of her sister stars across
the water in the Picture Show. Now that.
Edith Nepeau is spending her weekdays visiting
the British studios, Miss Villis will find the
1'ictcre Show even more interesting, for she
will be able to read of her sister stars at home.
— *-* —

The Big Three.

LETTERS still pour in, telling me that the
" Girls' Cinema " has found a permanent
home in the hearts of many of my readers,
and I must say here that I am very pleased in
having the luck to find just the kind of stories
and the kind of articles to please my readers.
1 also have a very kind thought for many of my
friends in the cinema world fcr their very
valuable contributions. 1 know you like first-
hand talks, and the " Girls' Cinema " seems to
have provided a long felt want. The Picture
Show has always done full justice to the many
beautiful photographs sent us each week, that
the reading matter and letters from filmla id
have had only- to be allowed a small sp.ice.
Now you have the Picture Show for pictures,
and the " Girls' Cinema " for stories, letters,
and talks from your favourites. Then the
'' Boys' Cinema " brings the breeze of the Great
Wild West to your doors. In this latter paper
we can read of the heroisms of the other 'side — ■
the spirit of adventure that is in the heart of
every real boy.

Don't you think you have now a splendid
trio of papers ? I call them the Big Three.
- — ♦+ —

Old Time Recollection.

IT is seldom we see a " Punch and Judy "
show these days, so the scene showing one
in the coming Harma film, " Brenda of the
Barge," will bring back many old time recollec-
tions. In this film James Knight plays the
hero, and Marjorie VilKs plays Brenda.

Another noted player in this film is Bernard
Dudley, and we shall see him and James Knight
in a fight scene, which has been filmed on the
actual spot where Tom Sayers and Heenan
fought their memorable contest many years
ago.

— —
Mahlon Hamilton 111.

MAHLON HAMILTON is the latest member
of the film colony to suffer in the cause
of art. It was towards the end of the
eomine Pathe film, " The Girl Montana," star-
ring Blanche Sweet, with Mahlon as leading
man, in which he suffered painful injuries in a
rough and tumble fight scene. But in spite of
torn ligaments in his leg, Mahlon Hamilton
went on to the end of the picture, and in conse-
quence is now laid up.

— —

A Stupendous Success.

WITH the wave of spiritualism spreading
over the country, it is interesting to
know that " Earthbound." the big
Goldwyn picture, which is now -being shown in

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London, and will shortly bo shown all over tho
country, is said to have had a stupendous
success in America. Tho manager of a New
York theatre issued a sworn statement that
during one week 73,251 people had seen the
picture.

— —

He Forgot One Thing.

THERE is an old Irishman playing as an
extra in the next Lyons and Moian
comedy, and for the past three months
he has been absenting himself at times from the
StU lio to attend funerals.

The other day Lee remonstrated with him,
Q )t wishing tho old le'.low to lose his job.

What's the idea of attending all these
funerals, Terry ? " he asked. " The people are
not even distantly related to you."

"I'm an old man, Mr. Moran," replied Terry,
" and I've got to think of the future. If you
don't attend other people's funerals, how can
you expect them to attend yours ? "

- - — —

"The Great Lover" on the Screen.

THE GREAT LOVER," the play that has
been ha ving so great a success in London
with Moscovitch in the chief part, has
been made into a film play by Goldwyn.

In " Sentimental Tommy."

AMONG those chosen for the cast of " Sen-
timental Tommy," the photo-play version
of the novel by J. M. Barrie, is Kate
Davenport, the niece of Doris Rankin, who
played opposite her husband, Lionel Barrymore,
in " The Copper Head," and sister of Arthur
Rankin, 'who played a prominent juvenile role
with Irene Castle.

Is Charlie Coming ?

RUMOUR is busy that Charlie Chaplin
intends coming over here to visit his old
homejin Brixton. He has rented his
studio to Carter De Haven, so perhaps at last

there is really some truth in the rumour, ai d
wo shall have a chance to welcome the grc.it
little comedian back home.

— ♦•♦ —

Making Mountains Out of Mole-hills.

SINCLAIR HILL, who is filming one of
Ethel M. Dell's stories, " Tho Place or
Honour," may gain the reputation of
making mountains out of molehill-. For tli
purpose of the film he is going to make a moun-
tain out of a Surrey hill. By the way, all tlm
male parts in this photo-play are to be tilled by
ex -Service men.

JAMES KIRKWOOD.
the clever producer,
who has deserted the
directorial ranks to
play heroic parts on the
film. We are shortly
to see him in "In the
Heart oi a Fool."

Miss MARY SPIERS, the " Picture Show " first
prize winner at the Victory Ball and Carnival which
took place at the Crystal Palace on October 9, 1920.

DERICK AIKMAN,
who is directing the film
of the CopeExpedition's
dash to the South Pole,
is the first producer to
obtain Lady Diana
Manners' consent to
appear in pictures.

A Famous Family.

WE are to see Gustavo Salvini. Italy *
veteran actor, on the screen in tho
L.I.F.T. picture, " Hold On."
For three generations the name of Salvini has
been famous in the dramatic world. Allesandro,
the father of Gustavo', will be well remembered
by the older generation of playgoers. Gustavo's
last visit to this country was in 1903, when,
with Eleanora Duse. he drew all London to the
Drury Lane Theatre. His son, Allesandro the
second, you will remember, starred with
Franeesca Bertini in some of her most ambitious
subjects.

Not the First.

LLOYD HAMILTON tells a good story of
the time when Bud Duncan and himself
were acting for the Kalem Company, ami
used the West Lake Park for many of their
comedies. The lake in this park had often
been used for other comedy scenes.

One day Ham lost his stage moustache in a
diving scene — you will remember he wore One
in those days — and called the property man.
who was a noted diver, and asked him to get it.

He accordingly dived, and came up with a
handful of moustaches, lost by Charlie Chaplin.
Chester Conklin, and others who had used the
lake, and yelled as he threw them on the bank :
'" Hay, Ham ! Which is yours ? "

— —

All Wasted.

MOST actors, no matter how emotional
they be, need inspiration for tear-.
That was why Claire Adams tried to
prepare little Frankie Lee for a weepy seen>-
the other day by telling him a very, very sad
atory.

She had him nearly at the point of cryin_-
when she herself gave way at her own sad stor, .
tuid tears began to flow. Even-one expected
Frankie to follow, suit, but when he saw Clair •
weeping, he threw his arms around her and
comforted her. Looking up, and his own ejo.3
were moist, he said :

" I shouldn't hug Claire, but it's the only
way to stop a woman crying ! "

Picture Show, December Ath, 1S20.

"PICTURE SHOW" CHAT. (Con^Wom

The joke was on Claire, and everyone had a
laugh at her expense. When the atmosphere
dropped back to normal, the scene was taken,
ind Frankie demonstrated his ability to weep
without the aid of a sad atmosphere.

Isn't She Tiny.

MAY McAVO Y is a new cinema find. Y\ e
are to see her playing opposite Herbert
Rawlinson in " Man and His Woman.'"
She is one of the most diminutive actresses
playing on the screen. Her height in exactly
4 ft; 11 in., her weight is slightly less than
100 lbs., and she wears size 1J shoes.

— —

Song to Accompany Play.

DOLORES LOPEZ is the author of the
screen story, " Can a Woman Forget ? "
now being produced ; and she is als»
writing the words for a song of the same name
which will be published simultaneously with
the release of tho picture.

The Simple Life Pays.

EILEEN PERCY has never been attracted
by the gay life which appeals to so many
nowadays. Even when she was playing
with the Follies in New York, and other girls
around her were rushing off to dinners and
dances, her mother and her home came first.

Now that she is a star, Miss Percy still
adheres to the simple life, because she knows
that too much gaiety will interfere with her
work, and with her work counts before pleasure.
For this reason, she insists en having eight
hours of sleep every night, regardless of all
focial demands. She has often been told by
licr friends that she spoils all arrangements
at a party by leaving before midnight. Of
course, she dislikes to leave, but she bqf deter-
mined to hold herself to a standard and make
sacrifices for the success of her work. For this
same reason, Eileen Percy makes a point of

I know that nearly
all my readers love
jumpers, so when I
saw this exception-
ally pretty design I
immediately
thought oS you. and
persuaded the Edi-
tress of " Woman's
Pictorial " to let me
show you the photo-
graph of it. Full
instructions for
making this jumper
will be Sound in t his
week's "Woman's
Pictorial."

TERENCE CAVANAGH, who has starred in
Barnaby," the " Ever Open Door " (to be
released this month), " Branded," and " Saved
From the Sea."

being punctual when called upon for studio
work.

" It's what I am being paid to do," she
says, " so it's up to me to be on time."

This is the spirit which the pretty star
puts into her work.

" Sitting up to all hours in the night is not
for tho woman who has to work during the
day," she says. '" The woman who isn't devoted
to her work cannot succeed."

— ♦♦ —

A Rapid Rise.

TERENCE CAVANAGH, whoso portrait
appears above, has had a phenomenal
success on the screen. His first appear-
ance was in a crowd, since when he has always
played leading part3. Mr. Cavanagh must have
an ideal screen face, for ho has never been an
actor ; but perhaps his great success is due to
the fact that his heart and soul is in his work.

An Offer From Plymouth.

SEEXA OWEN wants to thank an admirer
at Plymouth who offered her the use
of some old Irish lace that had been in
tho family for over 200 years. Here is an
extract from tho letter Miss Owen received :

" You will pardon mo for writing you, |
my dear, but I am an old woman, having
seen seventy-two -summers, and I thought I
i might help you a little bit. It just happens
s that I have seen you in three pictures ; tho
I first was ' Intolerance,' and the names of the
| other two I do not remember.

" ' Lavender and Old Lace ' is my favourite
book, and I saw by the paper that you are in
it. I have some fine old Irish lace that has
been in the family for over two hundred
years, and I'll be glad to lend it to you for
ono of your dresses if you'll be real careful
of it, and send it back to me when you are
through."

Miss Owen, however, was so afraid that
the lace might become lost or damaged in
transit that she did not accept the offer.
— ♦+ —

On Circus Day.

WILL ROGERS couldn't resist the old
call tho other day when a circus
was in full swing on the Goldwyn
lot for tho Edgar Small boy series. He
deserted his own work, and had a great
time displaying his rope stunts for the
kiddies in tho big tent.

" N'nthin' doin' ! " he protested to Clarence
Badger, his director. " I've always played
hookey on circus day, and I'm always goin'
to, so beat it ! "

Fay Filmer.

FROM " OVER THERE.'4

Notes and News From New YorK.

Charlie Chaplin Still in New York.

THE elusive Charles Chaplin, who has given
his newspaper friends to understand ha
will not be interviewed on the subject cf
his matrimonial difficulties, has not gone to
London, as we were led to believe last week.
He is in New York still, spending much of his
time reading Spenser, Macaulay, and Emerson,
playing on his fiddle, and trying to forget the
accusations that Mildred Harris Chaplin, his
young wife, brought against him. But Charlie
isn't devoting all his time to his books and
violin, he attends a theatre now and then, visits
a cabaret, and wanders in and out of some
brightly lighted cafe, possibly in search of
atmosphere. His friends say he presents a life-
sized picture of a man who is not heartbroken
in any sense of the word.

Opens Her Vaudeville Season.

MADAME OLGA PETROVA has gone to
Indianopolis to open her vaudeville
season. I rushed down to the station
in time to say good-bye to her, and to see a
crowd of interested spectators rush up to get a
close-up view. When she saw she was recog-
nised she hurriedly disappeared into the train,
for despite years on the stage and screen she is
exceedingly shy and timid. Having signed up
to play a twelve weeks' engagement with the
Keith Vaudeville interests she will not make a
picture till later in the season. Her plans are
indefinite at this time, but everyone hopes sho
will soon give us a screen play — one in which
some of the big problems of feminism are
discussed. Madame is an ardent feminist herself,
believing in the equality of women in business
and social life.

Fox Signs Eve Balfour.

EVE BALFOUR, address London, England,
arrived in New York four months ago,
witli a grim determination to get a motion
picture contract or die in the attempt. Her
good looks, her pleasing personality, and the
twinkle in her eye made everyone with whom
she talked quite sure the latter course would bo 1
unnecessary. Still, despite America's far-famed
reputation for celerity of action weeks went on
without a thing in sight. But Miss Balfour knew
she could always go back to England and get a
job, so sho refused to worry over America's
indifference.

At last, when her British determination was-
soraly shaken she received an offer from tho
Fox Film Company to play the " heavy " in a,
new serial they are about to film. She is now at
the studio waiting to begin that highly prized
engagement.

The Return of Irene Castle.

WHEN Irene Castle married Robert Trc-
maine, the young millionaire who bears
such a startling resemblance to her lato
husband, Captain Vernon Castle, she said sho
was through with films and dancing for all time..
She said she could never dance without Vernon,
it made her depressed and unhappy. But time
heals many wounds, and now Mrs. Castle-
Tremaine is coming I .a*, k into films. Her
millionaire husband is going to deposit some of
his cosh in a new film organisation to be known
as the Irene Castle Company, and I, for one,
shouldn't be surprised to hear of her accepting
a dancing engagement. It takes a strong-
minded soul indeed to stay away from the glare,
of the footlights and the fascination of public
applause.

Bessie Gets a Shock.

BESSIE LOVE was highly amused the other
day at a remark made by a visitor at her
studio. The woman, thrilled at being so
close to a live motion-picture actress, asked bir
what picture she was making.

"'Old Curiosity Shop,'" said Bessie, "by
Charles Dickens. Although most of the scenes
are laid in London we are making them here at.
the studio, and I believe the effect is just as
good."

" If you like his stories so well why don't
you get Mr. Dickens to write you another," said
the dear old lady, supremely unconscious of
tho effort Bessie was making not to laugh.

Louella O. Parsons

picture S/tou; Denmhtr Mh, 1920.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA FOR THE " PICTURE SHOW."

It looks as though LAURA LA PLANTE has not much chance o! dodging Two film artistes who are favourites of many picture-goers— PAULINE FREDERICK
the ducking which BOBBY VERNON and BILL BEAUDINE have planned. and JULIAN ELTINGE.

6 Picture Show, December 4th, 1920.

BEGIN TO-DAY ! A POWERFUL STORY OF A GREAT TEMPTATION. By EMMIE ALLINGHAM.

Reav This First.

ARTHUR WESTON is summoned by his aunt,
Amy Rae, to Greystone Manor. He finds her
very ill, and she tells him she has sent for him
because she is worried about her son Harry. Her
husband married her for her money, and he has spent
it as East as he can, and there is no provision made
for her son's future.

She trusts Arthur implicitly, and gives him a bag
containing twenty thousand pounds in notes which
she has managed to save, and asks him to hold it in
trust for her boy. She tells Arthur that she will
leave Greystone Manor to him ; but it is really for
Harry, and he is to pass it over to him when he is
twenty-one.

Arthur is deeply touched.

" May God punish me if I do not respect your
trust in me," he says very earnestly.

A fortnight later Amy Rae dies. After the will
has been read, Arthur Weston is walking in the
grounds of Greystone Manor and overhears a con-
versation between Harry and Grace Ferguson, the
vicar's daughter.

Harry is saying that he cannot believe his mother
could have made such a will ; and after he has
spoken of Arthur Weston as an outsider he discovers
him on the other side of the hedge, and accuses him
of eavesdropping. He i3 very rude, and it ends in
a fight. Arthur is no fighter, and is ignominiously
dci'&fltcd

" I will punish him for this ! " Arthur mutters as
he picks himself up.

A few days later Arthur Weston receives a letter
from his lawyer. Cecil Eae is going to dispute the
will.

The Rector Tries to Make Peace.

ARTHUR WESTON read the lawyer s letter,
and an exclamation of disgust escaped
his lips.

He had thought he could get to work on
Greystone Manor at once. He was heartily
tired of the whole business, he told himself.

He had been quite contented with his life up
to now. If only his relations would have let
him alone. He was still burning with the
thought of the unjust treatment he had received
from Harry, and one day he meant to punish
him for it.

But that did not even associate itself in his
mind with the dying trust his aunt had placed
upon him.

He told himself he wanted to restore Grey-
stone Manor for its own sake. Ho had made
up his mind to go and live there with Jessica,
so that he would be always on the spot, while
the work was being done.

A law case might drag on for years and yeaVs.

He went across the room to his desk, and
after furtively glancing around lie unlocked a
drawer and took out the leather case.

It worried him to keep such a large sum in the
house, yet what was he - to do with it ? He
could not take it to the bank. It was such a
large sum.

Suppose they began to mako inquiries as to
how he had come by it ? The sweat stood out
on his brow at the thought.

Suppose these lawyers went into his aunt's
affairs and discovered she had had so much
money in her possession ? Suppose they
accused him of stealing it f He could not tell
the truth, for, unfortunately, he had spent a
little of the money. There had been one or two
bills which had been pressing. His investments
had suddenly dropped. No doubt they would
recover in time, but it would have been very
awkward for him if he had not been able to
meet his debts. The money had seemed a
godsend at tho time — even now he could not
honestly bring himself to regret having had it
in his charge.

The crisp feel of the notes fascinated him,
and not a day passed but he examined and
counted them. Ho told himself that it was his
duty. He was only looking after what had
been entrusted to his care.

Ho was startled by a knock at the door.

Hastily concealing the bag, and locking the
drawer, he went across the room and threw open

tho door with such violence that the maid
shrank back nervously.

" Please sir, the Rev. Mr. Ferguson is here.
He is in the drawing-room," she said.

Arthur Weston frowned at the girl.

" Show him in here," he said harshly.

The girl went to do his bidding, and the man
turned back into his room.

What brought the parson of Greystone over,
he wondered. Something to do, no doubt, with
Harry.

Arthur Weston flung himself into an easy
chair, and waited.

The Rev. Ferguson entered the room with
his hand outstretched, and a smile on his face.

" Ah, my dear Weston ! So pleased to find
you in. What glorious weather we are having."

Arthur nodded, and pointed to a chair.

" I presumo you have not come seven miles
to tell me that," he remarked ungraciously.

The rector glanced round at his companion
sharply, then he smiled.

" My dear Weston," he said amusedly.
" What is wrong with you ? You don't appear
very pleased to see me."

Arthur endeavoured to pull himself together.

The Rector of Greystone and his wifo had
gone out of their way on more than one occasion
to show a kindness to him and his motherless
little girl.

" I am not quite myself. Tin" attitude of .
Harry Rae and his father is naturally some-
what disquieting," said Arthur irritably.

The rector nodded sympathetically.

" It must be. The truth is, Weston, it is on
that subject that I want to talk to you."

Arthur clutched at the arms of his chair. The
words startled him. He felt he must be on his
guard. Ferguson was a friend of the Raes.
No doubt ho had come at Cecil Rae's suggestion.

The rector was evidently waiting for Arthur
to speak, but the happenings of the last few
weeks had -made him caut ious.

There was a silence in the room while the two
men looked at each other. The Rev. gentleman
rose slowly from his seat.

" Weston," he said, " as I hope you know, I
am your friend, and I want to take the privilege
of a friend. I was with your poor aunt when
she died. Sho asked me to keep an eye on her
boy and his interests. She also told mo the
terms of her will."

He paused, but the man in the chair made no
remark, ho was waiting to hear m6re.

Mr. Ferguson placed his hand gently on his .
companion's arm.

" You can imagine how sorry I was when I
heard of tho little misunderstanding between
you and Harry. It was a most unfortunate
occurrence, but, under the circumstances,
perhaps quite natural. I come as peacemaker,
Weston. I wondered if you would crms and
dine with us to-night. I want you and tho
boy to meet and know each other."

Arthur shook his head.

" I have no wish to renew my acquaintance
with any of the Raca. But what do you mean ?
What did mv aunt mention to you in- connection
with her will ? "

.The Rector glanced keenly down at the
young man . before him.

" She told me she had left Greystone in your
charge for Harry. She was sure she had done
right and wanted me to agree with her, and I
did. I must confess that I was grateful that
she had not thrust such a responsibility on to
my shoulders, and I recognised that sho had
given you a very thankless task. It is becauso
I feel this so strongly I have come over to you
to-day. I suggest you come this evening, and
meanwhile, I, with your permission, will tell
the boy. Then he will apologise to you for all
his rudeness, and you will be friends."

Again there was a silence.

Arthur Weston was thinking deeply.

How much did this man know, ho won-
dered ? Had his aunt mentioned the money ?
How dared she tell anyone at all ? Her
naturally suspicious nature had made her tell
this parson so that he could spy on him. How
many others had she told 1 His brow grew
dark with anger.

And then, quite suddenly, it came over Arthur
Weston that he was acting very foolishly. If
he was not careful he would make this good
friend of his become suspicious. He glanced
up, and placed his hand over the one which
rested on his shoulder.

" I appreciate your friendship and the motive
which has brought you here," he said, with
apparent eagerness. " I have been longing for
someone with whom I might discuss this busi-
ness without disrespect to the wishes of tho
dead. I have been worried over this affair,
but I do not see, now, that I can have the boy
told ; he is young and naturally feels for his
father. You and I both know what will
happen if the estate once falls into his hands. '

"Quite so. 1 was thinking entirely of you,
Weston. I hear that Mr. Rae is taking tho
matter into court, but his lawyers will, I am
sure, advise him to relinquish the idea."

Arthur produced the letter.

The rector read it through, and sighed.

" It is such a pity. The estate has been,
drained to tho utmost," he said. " Yes, it will
take a fortune to put right as it is," remarked
Arthur, with a furtive glanco at his visitor.

" Indeed it will, Weston."

Again the two men gazed thoughtfully at each
other.

It was upon Arthur's lips to say that ho
wondered where the money was to come from,
but somehow he dared not. He found himself
quite unable to mention the money at all.

" I think, myself, the boy ought to know,
Weston," the clergyman continued, after a
pause. " You see, he is left in my charge, so
to speak, and I know that his mother wished
him to continue at school. He talks of giving
all that up and going out to Australia."

" He would be away from his father's infiu-
ence," said Arthur.

The visitor glanced at him swiftly.

" So ho would be at school, and in the vaca
tion he can make his home with us."

Arthur sprang from his chair and began to
pace the room.

" I want to bo left alone.' he said querulously.
" Ever since this wretched business has come
into my hands I've been worried and pestered.''

" I am -sorry, but I naturally want to do the
best for the boy," replied Mr." Ferguson. " If

you would consent, Weston " He paused

significantly. > '

" I shall not do anything of the kind. I
respect the wishes of the dead, Mr. Ferguson.
The boy is not to know for another five years,"
said Arthur .violently.

" You have quite made up your mind ?
Nothing I can say will alter you !

" Nothing, absolutely nothing."

The rector sighed.

" But, Mr. Weston, a law suit — the estate
can never stand it. It may go on for years.
It would put a stop to the whole proceeding
now, if you allowed them to know, and it
could be arranged that you carry out tho
wishes of your aunt "

" I will not discuss the subject further '
cried Arthur irritably. " You mean well. M r.
Ferguson, but kindly understand that this is
an affair which rests* entirely between my late
aunt and me." ■

" Ah, well ! Como to dinner to-night and
meet the boy again. Come and help uie to
persuade him to get on with his studies."

" No. I believe, myself, in Fate. What is
to be, will be. If he wants to go abroad, why
{Continued on oage 8 1

Picture S/iou; December Hth, 1920.

"THE HOPE OF HIS SIDE."

A coming British Film founded and produced by the well-known
artist, E. P. KINSELLA, on his famous coloured picture of
the same name. All the parts are played by children.

THE HOPE confides in the REJECTED ONE
that SHE has found another sweetheart, and
together the; plan revenge.

SHE suggests that the rivals should play for her hand.
A game o! cricket is decided upon, the captain of the
winning side to have her hand.

THE HOPE goes in first certain of
victory. This is his smile when he gets
ready for the first ball.

Bowled out first ball. THE HOPE tells the REJECTED
ONE of his great disappointment.

Meanwhile SHE and his rival are married, little
caring for the heart they have broken.

The little stars in this film are as follows :

'The Hope of His Side," GEORGE GRIMWOOD : "She," DOROTHY
ADLARD; "The Jilted One." NINA SANDS.

Fed up 1 THE HOPE is left on the
Church steps. " Nobody loves me!"

DERRICK: "The Rival." LEONARD

Picture Show, Dtccmbir Wi, 1920.

' Manacled By Money.''

stop him ? He may do very well out there.
As you remarked, the estate will want some-

thing spent on it " Arthur paused signifi.

cantly.

The clergyman gave him a queer look.
" I havo not forgotten that, Mr. Weston,"
he said.

Arthur watched the clergyman go down the
drive a few minutes later, wheeling his bicycle.
He was agitated. Ho showed it in his walk. /
The man watching him was also excited, for
his hands twitched, spasmodically as he went
over the conversation once more in his mind.

" Did the Rov. Ferguson know about the
money that his aunt had given him to restore
Greystone Manor, or did ho not ? " That was
the question that kept recurring to his mind.
" They all behave just as though they thought
1 was not honest," he told himself impatiently.

He turned back into the room, and flung
himself into a chair.

■' Everybody suspects me. It is enough to
make a man pay them out in their own coin."

For some minutes he sat thinking deeply, and
as he did so the shadow on his face grew darker.

" The place is mine for five years, and 1 won't
give it up, not for anyone," he muttered.
" Silly, distrustful old woin.m ! What did she
want to leave it to me for if she did not trust
mo .' If she told him that, what else did she
tell him ? Does he know about the leather bag,
I wonder ? Did she toll him that, too ? "

It did not matter, he told himself repeatedly.
He was going to do exactly as his aunt had
asked him. He would do tho right thing. He
was only upset because the dying woman had
not trusted him. She had evidently trusted
no one. She had even deceived her husband,
pretending to have spent money while all the
time she was saving secretly.

Harry Rae's Promise.

PLEASE do not try to dissuade -me, sir.
I have quite made up my mind. I had
a talk to father yesterday, and he agrees
with me. It ia the best thing I can do. 1 am
simply wasting my time now at college, and the
money will be far more useful in starting me
in a new country."

" But, my dear boy, think of your future !
These next few years will make all the difference.
If you continue at a Public School you will bo
always able to hold your own wherever you go."

" Yes, and find myself without a chance of keep-
in2 among the people I have associated with."

But, dear boy, why not wait and see ?
Trust in providence. If you were to take my
advice, I would call on your cousin and make
your peace with him. That little affair of
yours was most disagreeable and unfortunate."

" I don't caro for tho fellow. There must bo
something wrong with him, or why would all
his people have turned against him like they did ? "

One should not judge by appearances. His
marriage was not approved of, 1 believe, bvit
his wifo was a most charming littlo creature,
and your mother must havo liked your cousin
or else she would never have trusted him as
she has."

Harry Rae gave a mirthless little laugh.

" I can't understand my mother," he said.
"Theiinore I think of it all, the less I under-
stand."

The elder man leaned across tho table. They
had just finished dinner, and Grace and Mrs.
Ferguson had gone into the sitting-room, from
which sounded a sweet, girlish voice at the piano.

" Harry," said the clergyman earnestly, " I
want to impress upon you that your mother
acted as sho did from tho best of motives.
W hen you are twenty -one, my boy, you will
understand. I may not toll you as much as
I might wish, but on your twenty-first birthday
thero will be a wonderful surprise in storo for
you. This much I feel 1 am right in telling you.
And if you are sensible, you will go back to
school as your dear mother wished. She
planned out your lifo for you, boy, and it is
for you to obey her wishes."

Over Harry's faco came an obstinate ex-
pression.

" I am going to Australia, sir. My mind is
quite made up," ho said calmly.

Tho clergyman gazed at him holplcssly.

" Can I say nothing to dissuade you, my
boy ? " he asked sadly.

" Nothing at all, sir. I've mado up my
mind. I want you to help me to get out there,
and then I mean to waste no time." j

" There is one thing then, that you must
promise me, Harry.

'" Whatever happens, you must return here
for your twenty-first birthday. Whatever
your condition of life may be, if trouble and
misfortune overtake you, you must give me
your word of honour that you will return. If
you have not your fare, you must promise
to write for it. Do you hear ? "

Harry smiled at his old friend's eagerness.

" I sha'n t be hard irp. Everyone makes a
fortune in Australia," he said, with easy con-
fidence. " But I will come back for my twenty-
first birthday. I promise you that."

Two weeks later Harry called at the Roctory
to say good-bye.

The Rev. Mr. Ferguson had a friend in
Melbourne, to whom he had written, and Harry
w7as also taking letters of introduction with him.

Grace was very quiet when he came to say
good-bye to her.

" I shall write and tell you all about every-
thing," she said, smiling up at him ; and Harry
never guessed how her heart was crying out
within her.

He shook her hand, and laughed as ho
thanked her. In a vague way he knew that
she did not want him to go.

" Girls are like that, and Grace is curiously
like poor mother used to bo," he thought, as
lie waved to them all as tho dogcart started
down the drive to take him to the station.

They stood and waved until the cart was out
of sight. Mr. Ferguson was the first to turn
away towards the house. Grace felt her lip
quivering. She had been so brave, but now he
was gone she almost broke down.

She mado her way into the garden, and
then took the footpath through the paddock
to Greystone Manor grounds.

The house looked gloomy and completely
deserted when she reached it.

The shutters were closed over the windows,
and all the doors were locked. Grace sat down
on tho discoloured stone steps and stared dis-
consolately in front of her.

Sho knew thero was a secret passage into
the house if she really wished to enter. She
and Harry had often used it when they were
children. They had discovered it quite by
accident, but to-day the girl had no heart to
explore.

Suddenly the girl raised her head and lis-
tened— a startled expression in her eyes. Then
slowly she turned her head towards tho shut-
tered room behind her.

Thero was someone in the darkened room
behind her — someone who evidently had no
business there, else why did they not open the
shutters instead of carrying a light ?

For a moment the girl stood hesitating, her
eyes fixed on tho tell-tale gleam which shone
through the crack3 of tho shutters, and then her
thoughts flew instinctively to Harry. Thero
were burglars inside trying to steal from him.

She forgot that the homo was no longer his,
as swiftly and silently she made her way to tho
old sundial that stood surrounded by a perfect
circle of oak trees at the side of tho house.

It was Harry who pointed out the absurdity
to the girl years ago.

" What is tho good of a sundial if it's hidden
by these great trees ? " he had said one day,
and then they had discovered tho secret.

It was quite by accident. Harry was seated
on the sundial, treating it as a troublesome
horse. Regardless of his suit, lie was wriggling
over the moss-grown surface, when suddenly
the dial moved, revealing to the children a
flight of stone steps.

That had been an exciting afternoon. Harry
had descended first, and Grace had eagerly
followed him.

The steps led into a passage, which was
cunningly ventilated from the outside by ft
greenhouse placed between one of the oaks and
the house. The door at the further end of tho
passage they had found open, and this led into
darkness.

Mrs. Rae had told the children that she had
played in the secret passage when she was t»
girl, but there was a legend which warned the
owners of the house not to impart tho know-
ledge by word of mouth to strangers. Every
one must ^discover the secret for themselves.
This had impressed tho children, and when Mrs.
Rae had encouraged them to explore further,

and whe^i they discovered that tho stairs went
up between the wall of the staircase and the
library, their delight knew no bounds.

A secret panel disclosed an entranco from
either spot, and the children had amused them-
selves by appearing and disappearing at unex-
pected moments, almost under tho nose of
bewildered servants,

It did not take Grace long to move the top
of the sundial now, for she had done it so many
times before. The only danger was that she
could not replace it in its right position. But
there was no one about, sho decided, as she
gazed around her. It would be quito safe to
leave it open.

. A few minutes later she was feeling her way
up the dark, narrow stairs. A faint light
through the wainscotting showed her that sho
was on a level with the library.

Very cautiously she felt for the wooden catch,
and slid the secret panel. It was very stiff, and
made a peculiar little grating noise.

She stopped at once, but tho sound had
reached the man in the room. He raised his
head quickly from the papers he was examining
at the desk, and stood listening.

Who is there ? " he cried, in a startled
voice.

Grace, cowering bclund the oak wainscoting,
did not answer.

The man stood for a few seconds, and then
went to the door. He waited there, listening
intently, and then suddenly threw it open.

But there was no one in tho gloomy hall, and,
after satisfying himself, ho closed the door again
and went back to the desk.

Grace, gaining courage, peeped through tho
aperture she had made, and recognised him.
It was Arthur Weston !

How foolish she had been ! Of courso the
place belonged to him now. He was the master
of Greystone Manor, and she was a trespasser.

Sho should never have entered. Her father
would be vexed if he knew.

Very cautiously she slipped tho panel back
into its place, and began to de=cend. She had
reached the passage when her heart suddenly
gave a frightened jerk, and she stood still.

.Someone was moving about the stairs which
led to tho sundial, cutting off her retreat.

Slowly sho became aware that the person
was descending. Now thoroughly scared, sho
began to climb tho stairs once more, and sped
upward. She knew sho must gain the staircase
if she did not want to be seen. It was rather
exciting.

Sho reached the panel on the staircase, and
glided through. She '.ad just time to reach tho
upper hall, and slip behind tho big plush curtain
which covered "a door, when she heard by tho
sounds behind her that the newcomer was also
coming through the secret panel.

Twilight was already settling in dark shadow*
in the corners of tho place, but tho girl recog-
nised tho newcomer with a little gasp of be-
wilderment. It was Cecil Rae, Harry's father.

Tho gentleman was chuckling to himself as
ho closed up his entrance, and then proceeded
to descend the stairs.

He had proceeded half way when once more
tho library door was thrown open, and Arthur
Weston appeared.

" Who the deuce " he began ; and then

an ugly expression passed over his face.

.Mr. Rao stood hesitating for a moment, and
then he walked down tho rest oPthe stairs.

" I was wondering who could bo here," he
said. " I might havo known, though, if I had
given it a thought. What arc you doing, I should
like to know t "

Tho door closed upon (he two men, and Grace
heard no more.

Her one idea was to got away before she was
discovered.

She glided to the secret panel, and shut it
carefully behind her. Then, as sho came on i»
level with the library, she heard voices raised
in anger.

Tho two men were quarroUing.

Tho girl hastened her movements. It was
getting late — her parents would be anxious.

She reached the garden, and was hesitating
whether or not to rcplaco tho sundial to its
normal position when ft shot rang out. It came
from the library.

Scarcely knowing what sho was doing, the
girl swung the stone back into its proper place
and then started to run.

' Another instalment in next Mor.Joy's ' P c'.urm
Show."}

Picture m/tow, December 4(//, 1920.

THE EXPRESSIONS OF JACK MULHALL. (Special to the "Picture Show.")

JACK MULHALL.

Th« Popular Star With tU
:: Wonderful Wavy Hair ::

I'VE always heard that a mole on the left
eyobrow is lucky, and now I'm convinced
of the truth of it. Here is a caso in point.
Yho subject of- this, Jack Mulhall, possesses
n large ono just in the above position, and
hasn't Fortune smiled upon him '/

Young, good-looking, a successful actor
with a long contract at Lasky's, a big following
of admiring " fans," a pretty wife and a lovely
baby 1 What more could a mortal desire !
And yet he's so refreshingly modest ! It's
hard to get lum to talk about himself, because
he won't admit that anybody can be interested
' in him, and I have to literally drag bits of
information out of him. When ho hears that
the interview is for the British public, ho
begins to unbend.

His Reminiscences of England.

'' EE ! I love England ! " he starts remin
V f. iscently. " I spent six months
over there in 1910, and I
had a dandy time."

" How did you happen to visit
us ? " I asked*

** " Well, just then I had some
. money that burned a hole in my
pocket, and I thought a trip across
would be the very thing. I went
first to France, saw Paris, Dijon,
Bclfort, and many other places that have since
been nearly wiped off the map. Then I got ov
to Southampton, where, w nth a party, I spent
week exploring the beauties of the New Forest,
after which we made tracks for London. I
happened to reach there at rather a sad time ;
I ho whole country was in mourning for King
Edward, who had just passed away. I witnessed
the lying-in -state in the Abbey, and afterwards
saw the Royal funeral. What a wonderful
procession it was, too ! What a collection of
kings for a democratic American to gloat over !
I can well remember seeing the trouble-maker
of the world, Wilhelm, all dolled up in a white
uniform ! "

His Favourite Authors.

I SUPPOSE, like most of your countrymen
and countrywomen, you did some sight-
seeing, Mr. Mulhall 'I "
" I guess I did ! I've always been fond of
reading, and among my favourite authors
were Dickens, Carlyle, and Thackeray. I mado
a special visit to Gad's Hill, to seo where the
great novelist had lived, and poked about all
sorts of queer places in London that are associated
with his books and characters. I went over
Carlyle's house in Chelsea, and revelled in the
Wallace Collection, because of Becky Sharp.

A Sore Point.

MR. MULHALL appears to have a sweet
disposition, but one of the few^ things
that " get his goat " is asking hirn if he
Marcels his hair ! It's a shame, really, to teas?
him ; but it's rather unfair that a man's hair
should grow in great big natural waves that
a woman would give her soul for ! Added to
which attraction, ho has the bluest of eves,
with long, curling eyelashes. A3 a matter of
fact, he is rather an Adonis ; and, doubtless

for that reason, wa3 chosen as a model for n
very popular stylo of collar. Thorofore, not
alone, then, is he familiar to the public through
the medium of the screen, but his face greets
\ou on aU the railways and trams. His teeth,
which are perfect, are also u3od to set forth the
\ irtuc3 of a well-known tooth-paste. I was just
about to ask him if Messrs. Blank, of the Perma-
nent Hair-Wave Company, had approached him,
but, on second thoughts, decided I wouldn't.

If yoa wish

to write to

htm, address

your letter —

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Studios,

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Adores Children-

HE looks ridiculously young, although why
shouldn't he ? He's only in the early
twenties. I can't imagine him as a fond
parent, but lie is, owning a bouncing boy three
years old. He says that ho adores children, clean
or grubby, and he would like doztns and dozens 1
His favourite pastime is tinkering with his
car, a handsome Hudson super-six. He also
confesses to some skill in handling a rod.

A Nasty Experience.

OF eourso, lie does all sorts of stunts on horse-
back and in the swimming line. Talking
about tho latter, ho relates how he
nearly lost his lifo in a picture that was being
taken in San Francisco. The 6cene was in
Golden Gate Harbour, and called for him to
receive a blow on the head which was to knock
him unconscious into the water.

This all happened as per directions, but the
engine of the motor-boat that was within call
for the purpose of picking him up when the
camera had finished shooting "
went wrong suddenly and calmly
stayed where it was ; and there
was Master Jack, fully dressed,
with the collar of his silk shirt
shrinking through the action of the
water and slowly throttling him !
HHK^ A preserver was thrown to him,'
WKfr however, and he wasn't too far gone
to have the presence of mind to cling
on to it, and in a few moments he was being
plied with nips of brandy from a friendly flask.

His Wife's Adventurous Life.

AS is required of most heroes in the movies,
he is a graceful dancer, and, in company
with his pretty wife, is often seen at
the cabarets and places where dancing is
popular. She, by the way, has crammed a
good deal of incident into her short life. She
lived for ten years in Mexico, and while
there saw many a revolution. Trifles such
as raids, burning up villages, looting
towns meant nothing to her !

British.

THAT the British public may know
he has a bit of Britain in his
veins, Mr. Mulhall points out that,
although he was born in New York, his mother
was Scotch and his father Irish. I might
add, in passing, that he is 5 ft. 11 in. in
height, weighs 11 stone, and has light-brown
hair.

The post-bag of a movie favourite is no small
matter, as Jack Mulhall knows well.

While I talked to him a large packet was
brought in, and I noticed they were from all
MULHALL parts of the world. One which caused much
amusement was from India, and said :

" The humble writer awaited the weekly
show ing of ' The Brass Bullet ' " — a serial in
which he appeared — " with trepidation and
delight not to be spoken of, and he trusted
the honoured recipient of this unworthy
letter would live very long to please many
peoples."

.And so say all of us !

Summing you up.

Absolutely determined. Laden with thought.

His pleased smile.

His clear cut profile.

HOLMAN CLARK.

Hissed for the First Time.

WHEN I saw the famous actor — Mr. Hoi man
Clark — in his dressing-room the other
afternoon, he had just faced the novel
ordeal of being hissed — when playing in the
" Right to Strike."

His dark eyes and mobile features were alight
with enthusiasm. He
was tremendously
elated at the demon-
stration.

' There's a certain
element of excitement
in playing in ' The Right
to Strike,' " he declared
smiling. " Up to this
afternoon the house had
always been divided
into two sections — for
and against !

" Directly I went on
the stage to-day I felt a.
certain tense magnetism
in the air. Every word
of the play was followed
with breathless interest
— and when I, as the broken man of the play,
who had lost everything that made life bear-
able, suddenly declared my determination to
strike also — there was a sudden spontaneous
hiss, that showed for the first time the house
was not divided."

Many Emotions— One Expression.

FROM the theatre our conversation drifted
into the ever-absorbing one of filmland.
" Acting on the screen is very different
to legitimate stage work," Mr. Hohnan Clark
observed. " For the screen, the less you do the
more effective is your work, providing the sit-
uation in which you are in is interesting to
yourself. Of course, this can be overdone.
Xot long ago I saw the caricature of a film actor,
first as himself; secondly, depicting pleasure;
thirdly, anger, and so on — the point of the
story was the expression, which was exactly the
Eame for every emotion. In fact, he was himself,
as shown in picture one ! "

The Cold-Blooded Bogey.

npHEN Mr. Clark went on to tell His ex-
J[ perience of screen work.

■" Playing in ' Once Aboard the Lugger,'
n Hepworth film, gave me much pleasure," he
confessed. " Mr. Hepworth is one of the main-
stays of the cinema, very artistic, anxious to do
the best work, and to treat his people with great
consideration."

When I asked Mr. Clark which ho preferred,
film work or the stage, he was a wee bit evasive.

" I don't dislike screen work," ho smiled ;

the legitimate stage demands the same thing —
very often artistes who are excellent at rehearsals,
nre not a success at a performance. But they
uould possibly make very good screen artiste--.
On the other hand, there are those who arc had
at rehearsal, and require an audience before
they can bring out their best work. They suiter
from the cold-blooded way one has to play out
scenes at rehearsals, but they are magnificent
at a performance."

Books Better Than Plays.

AND then our conversation drifted on to
plots.

'' J think scenarios taken from books are
more successful than when taken from plays,"
he declared, " and scen-
arios written for the
screen are better than
cither. When we have
really learnt the possi-
bilities of the art, we
shall make a very rapid
advance.

The Pleasure-Seek-
ing Habit.

LL the same, I
don't thin k
films will ever
injure the theatre," he
assured me. "Nobody
will ever bo quite satis-
fied with tho screen,
unless he, or she, happens to be deaf. Tho
human voice is missing ! But tho Cinema is
attracting a new public. It entertains them
ia their spare lime, in the afternoon and evening,

PAULINE PETERS.

THIS PAGE IS ALL

LATEST PLANS OF PRODUCERS. STORIES FROM

and then in due course, this new public filters
Into the theatre, so the theatre will never be
ousted by the films."

Golf as a Rest Cure.

1HEN, whilst talking of the pleasure seeking
habit, we went onto games.

After a hard week's work I prefer golf
to anything," Mr. Hohnan Clark told me. HB|'
*' But I don't get much time now I'm a pro-
ducer." . .

Mr. Clark has played in the screen version
of " Red Pottage," and amongst other films in
" Her Heritage." '" A Message from Mars,"
My first film, 'The Brass Bottle," went all
over the world," he told me.

Her First Picture Within a Fortnight.

MISS PAULINE PETERS, a Broad west
star, thrilled me another evening^with her
experiences of how she commenced
film work. " •

" My first picture with the Broadwest."
she told me, " was in ' Trent's Last Case,' and
now I'm playing the lead in ' Her Penalty.' I
started in pictures five and a half years ago,"
and she laughingly added, " I left my home
in Cardiff against the wishes of my parents.
I came to London, not knowing a soul in the
trade. In spite of this, I was in my first picture
within a fortnight, playing a French maid, in
' From Shopgirl to Duchess,' after this I appeared
in about a dozen pictures in various parts for
the B. and C."

Dark Days and Sunshine.

AND then we drifted on to more serious
subjects.

Yes, of course the war .was a set-

bac

sho confessed.

GREGORY SCOTT.

" It interfered with
business and my
finances, so I just
packed up and went
home again ! But
after a time I was
discontented, being in
Wales. I wanted to
get back to work. {
had an offer to play
in Grosssinith's and
Laurillard's produc-
tion, ' To-night's the
Night.1 I accepted.
Then followed various
engagement:1, play-
ing various type^

from principal boy to girl ingenue— and heavy
parts."

Friday, and a Broken Mirror.

1 DON'T quite know why we started the topic
of superstition, but we did.

" Don't be superstitious about breaking
a mirror," she said seriously. " I had the
oddest experience. In May of last year, I came
back to London. Things were getting rather
more settled. I had an appointment with Mr.
Wilfred Noy, of tho British Acton*. Before
leaving home I smashed a hand-mirror, and it
was on a Friday morning. I felt so disheartened,
and being rather superstitious, nearly made up
my mind not to keep my appointment. How-
ever I went.

" Arriving at my destination. I met Mr. Duncan
.McRac, who was then producing W. J. Locke's
' Usurper.' The artiste who was playing
Vittoria was taken ill, and 1 being the type, was
engaged on the spot. On iuy way home from
the studio in the train 1 met Kenelm Foss. He
had heard of my playing Vittoria, and offered
me a lead in his production — that is why."'
Miss Peters declares. " broken mirrors and
Fridays, will never trouble trie any more."

Once a Villain, Always a Villain.

IN other words," sighed Gregory Scott, "give
a dog a bad name and you know what
happens."

In real life Gregory Scott certainly does not
look the part he so often plays on the screen.
He has real Celtic blue-grey eyes, that look
straight at one, and dimples ! Whoever
heard of a villain with such an asset ?

But he confessed to two failings, love for hj*
pipe — and, I must whisper it - gambling :

CLIVE BROOK as
Marlowe in "Trent's
Last Case," tbe new
Broadwest mystery
Him.

An unconvention-
al snap of PAU-
LINE PETERS,
taken on tbe cliOs
at Torquay.

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Vihl?a GREGORY SCOTT has a charming mod'!. In '
}^X«2 aside tbe role of villain and been allotted tbe I
bas nasted to portray lor torct ccntidl

Picture Show Art Supplement, December 4fA, 1920.

iha -'//<. 1920.

bUT BRITISH PLAYERS.

STUDIOS. AND GOSSIP ABOUT YOUR OWN STARS.

" The whole of the trouble is this," he declared.
" I wasn't born under a lucky star " — I couldn't
resist a smile, for many would consider them-
selves tremendously favoured by tho gods, to
have such thousands of admirers as this famous
Broadwest player. His writing-table was piled
up with letters from worshippers at his shrino,
from all over the world.

" They all ask mo tho same question," he
declared gloomily. " Why do I always play the
part of villain ? "

" Then why do it ? " I asked.
" To be candid," he answered, " I'm en-
tirely in the hands of the producer. I long to
try some other role."

He has his chance in the " Trent Case," and
no doubt others will follow.

Hearts Not Always Trumps.

I KEPT to my point that I wouldn't believe
in the unlucky star business.

" But my bad luck is proverbial ! "
Gregory Scott persisted ; " all sorts of people
know it. When I was in the Garrison Artillery
I used to play ' Crown and Anchor.' The other
day I received a missive from a certain bom-
bardier in my old battery.

" He had cut an illustration out of a newspaper.
It was just my head, depicting an expression
of horror. Be'ow he had drawn a sketch cf the
' Crown and Anchor ' game, and there was J,
looking down upon a pile of notes on tho Crown,
and I, as the banker, had thrown a double
Crown." Q

The i hotograph on this page of Mr. Gregory
Scott is his Javourite, and is an hitherto un-
published one. He gave it to me specially for
Picture Show readers.

Sunburn and Fog.

I FOUND Miss Faith
Celli looking very
sunburnt, when I
went to see her in her
dressing-room the
other day. There was
a fog without, but
within, crowds of
flowers, rose-tinted
lights, and Miss Celli's
shapely brown limbs,
created a wonderful
impression of summer
time.

" I love playing in
the ' Blue Lagoon,' "

she told me ; but I do wish they'd film it —
it is such a glorious play ; one wants to let
one's self go all the time."

Miss Celli's a fresh-air girl,
her denotes this. Do you
Barrie's play, " Dear Brutus '
her part so completely, that it wasn't like acting
at all. She has also played one of the lost boys
in " Peter Pan," and later, the immortal boy
who wouldn't grow up himself!

Character and the Screen.

WE were discussing the intimacy of the screen
with regard to tlie audience. -

" I'\e a rather weird sort of feeling, '
she said. " about playing for films, whatever
one's character is, it seems to show. If
you're charming and sweet so you appear.
You can do nothing to give this illusion. It's
some hidden consciousness within. If you're
selfish, and otherwise unpleasant, you can't
disguise it by a smile — before the tell-tale
camera ! "

A Little Quaker.

MISS CELLI then went on to say that she
came of Quaker ancestry — all the same
she adores acting.
" On the film?, one discovers quicker than
any other way just what not to do," she declared.

Miss Faith Celli made a hit in ^the Minerva
comedy, " The Bump."

When she isn't playing for the screen, or
acting, she slips away to the country.

" I love milking the cows an I feeding the
chickens," she laughed joyously — it is this air of
feminine hght-heartedness that makes her so
delightful !

FAITH CELLI.

Everything about
remember her in
? She fitted into

CAMERON CARR.

Mr. Cameron Carr.

THIS famous Broadwest star is usually oas*
for tho heavy lead. I had only a few
minutes' chat with him the other morning.
" I've played in sixteen pictures for the
Broadwest Company," he told me. " British
films have improved tremendously during the
last three years."

Ho will havo more
to tell mo when next
we meet. Ho plays
tho part of a detec-
tive inspector in
" Trent's Last Case."

"Trent's Last
Case "

WAS written by
E. C. Bentley,
and dedicated
to his friend, G. K.
Chester ion. The
Broadwest film ver-
sion preserves the
brisk action of the
book.

The scheming mil-
lionaire, Sigsbee Manderson (George Foley), ia
murdered near his English country house. But
in spite of his vast wealth ho is more hated
than loved, and few mourn him. Manderson's
financial enemies are numerous. He had
married an English girl, but there were rumours
that it was far from being an ideal union.

" The Evening Sun " was the first paper to
publish the exclusive news that Manderson had
been shot. Philip Trent (Gregory Scott),
something of an artist, also a free lance journalist,
was persuaded by the editor to investigate the
case immediately.

Trent is well received on the scene of the
tragedy by his old friend, Mr. Cupples (P. E.
Hubbard), the latter is Mrs. Manderson's
uncle. Detective Inspector Murch (Cameron
Carr), is greatly puzzled by the case, and ha
is only too delighted to get any helpful sug-
gestions that Trent might offer.

Manderson was discovered a long way from
his house early in the morning. Xo revolver
was found by the body, and all ideas of suicide
were swept aside. Moreover, there was no
apparent motive for murder.

Martin (Richard Xorton), the butler, was the
last man to see the millionaire alive. John
Marlowe (Clive Brook), a young Oxford man,
was Manderson's secretary. Any suspicion
that might have rested on him was dispelled
because it was proved that he had motored to
Southampton the night of the murder.

The Inspector could not make up his mind as
to the guilt of any one. But Trent, who fol-
lowed clues unobtrusively, comes at length to *
logical conclusion. From that moment he vowed
he would never again undertake such a case !

The Real Criminal.

THE reason being that he fell in love with
Mrs. Manderson (Miss Pauline Peters) at
first sight. He firmly believes that,
actuated by feelings of jealousy, John Marlowe
murdered the millionaire. He questions Mrs.
Manderson ; she becomes terribly distressed.
Then Trent discovers footprints — he finds they
were Manderson's, and that someone else wore
his boots — and that the man was Marlowe !
Also that Manderson never took more than one
glass of whisky. On the night of the murder
several glasses were taken by someone. By a
ruse he finds that -the finger-marks on the glass
used for whisky are Marlowe's", but for Mrs.
Manderson's sake he hesitates to give Marlowe
away. At last he says the ends of justice must
be served. Marlowe is accused. Trent sends his
decision to the " Evening Star." At last, driven
to despair, Marlowe declares that Manderson
plotted against him, tried to ruin him, and then
committed suicide. Forttmately for Marlowe
Mr. Cupple is able to prove that this is the case.

Trent is only just in time to prevent his
sensational report being published.

Time elapses, and every indication is given
that his love for Mrs. Manderson is not in vain.

The emotional acting of Miss Pauline Peters
is of a very high order. Gregory Scott played
With buoyancy and distinction, and Cameron
Carr, this time cast for a less important part
than usual, made it a telling and interesting
study of a not too intelligent inspector ; Cliva
Brook was an ideal Marlowe.

Edith Xepean.

Ticlure Show, December 4th, 1920.

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WILLIAM FARNUM as Pierre Fournel.

IN the little village of Verlaine, outside Quebec,
Pierre Fournel lived with his sister Gabriellc.
They were very poor and occupied very modest
apartments over the confectionery shop kept by Paul
La louche. Pierre was a musician who earned his
living, playing the violin and giving lessons. He was
saving every penny he could scrape in order to get to
New York, where he hoped to get some publisher to
buy his symphony which represented the great
ambition of his life.

But the payment for lessons was very small and
engagements very scarce. Often Pierre despaired
that he would ever save the money which he regarded
as the minimum amount which would enable him to
live in New York till he could get somebody to
publish the symphony. It was when Pierre was
almost inclined to give up the struggle, that the
friendship of La Touche proved so valuable

The confectioner believed in the genius of Pierre,
And was always at his side in these dark hours with
friendly counsel and monetary help. He would hurry
up the stairs from his shop with some daintily cooked
meal and a bottle of wine, and his cheerful spirits
would soon drive away Pierre's despair.

One summer afternoon Pierre was playing his
symphony with Gabrielle sitting at his feet when a
beautifully dressed girl entered the shop of La Touche.
The confectioner recognised her as Miss Kathleen
Noycs, a rich New Yorker, who came every summer
to Verlaine, where she entertained on a lavish scale.

Kathleen Noyes was very beautiful, and, to use tho
homely phrase, as good as she was beautiful.

As she heard the wonderful melody, she paused
and listened with head bent forward and appreciation
showing in her eyes. Herself no mean musician, sho
realised she was listening to a masterpiece being
played by a genius.

" Wonderful ! Wonderful 1 " she said softly. Then,
turning to La Touche, she asked the name of the
player.

" It Is Pierre Fournel," said La Touche. " One
day he will be famous. That which you hear him
play is his own composition ; a masterpiece which
one day will move the heart of the world."

" I wonder if he would play at a concert I am
giving ? " asked Kathleen.

" I am certain Pierre would be delighted," replied
La Touche, " but will not madaipc step upstairs and
J will introduce her to the great genius who is my
friend 1 "

Paul La Touche had long since appointed himself
publicity agent to Pierre, and he never lost an oppor-
tunity to boost his friend, for Pierre himself could
never have been persuaded to say a word in his own
favour. When Kathleen entered the little sitting-
room she saw a tall, powerfully made man with a
handsome face and the eyes of an artiste, and a girl
with long black hair and deep slumbering eyes Which
glowed with a wistful, brooding light, who bore a
striking resemblance to her brother.

" I came to ask you if you would play at my
concert, M. Fournel," said Kathleen, after La Toueho
had introduced her. " But first allow me to con-
gratulate you on your marvellous playing and on the
beauty of the symphony, which Mr. La 'louche tells
me is your own composition."

" You arc very kind." replied the musician. " I
shall be very pleased to play for you. Engagements
are not too plentiful just now."

Kathleen chatted for a little time and then went
down to the shop, where she was joined by a stylishly

dressed young man, who would have
been good looking but for a shifty
expression in his eyes.

" Anotlier discovery, Kathleen ? "
lie said with a scarcely veiled sneer.
" How these Bohemian mountebanks
impose on your good nature."

" I thought we had agreed not
to discuss music, Robert," said the
girl coldly.

" The only music that appeals fto you is of the
cheap, musical comedy brand, and I sometimes think
that vour outlook on life is fixed at the same level."

Robert Blake scowled as he followed Kathleen to
the door. They had been engaged for a considerable
time, but there was scarcely a day on which they
did not come into conflict, so dissimilar were their
ideas.

Kathleen put an end to any further discussion by
saying she had some further shopping to do. and that
Blake need not accompany her.

Left to himself Blake turned into a saloon and
joined a man who had been watching him through
the window of the bar. Raul Rouget was a man
about whom few people had a good word. He lived
by his wits and he was not too particular how he
employed his cunning talents.

If you take my tip. you'll so arrange it that your
fiancee" does not "see too much of that handsome
fiddler," he said " She seemed very much interested
in him."

" You saw her, then ? " queried Blake.

* Ye3. I was watching from an upstairs window.
As a matter of fact I was waiting for him to go out
so that I could have a few words with his sis.er
Gabriellc."

Blake raised his eves expressively

" Oh, I didn't know you were interested In that
quarter. 1 should have thought you, would have
tried for somebody with money."

" It's an old story, now." said the other evasively.
" But never mind Gabriellc. What I wanted to see
you about was that hundred dollars 1 owe you. I
can't pay you till I can force something from that
skinflint uncle of mine."

" Don't worry," said Blake. " It may come In
nselul to me this friendship of your= for Fournel's
sister."

" Friendship ? " sneered Rongct. " The little fool
thinks she is married to me. I got a pa1 to dress up as
a priest when 1 met her in Montreal, and we went
through a bogus marriage ceremony. And now she
Is always asking me to tell her brother and my uncle.
If my uncle foiuid out anything about the attair he
would wash his hands of me. You help me. Blake,
and I will see what I can do to keep Pierre. Fournel
away from your cirl."

With this understanding the two men parted.

The Confession.

THF. handsome cheque Kathleen Noycs gave to
Pierre for his services at the concert enabled
the musician to arrange for his long-contem-
plated visit to New York. La Touche was delighted,
and arranged a surprise party to celebrate the event,
in Hi' 1 1 1 i < I — * of the festivities, at which Blake (who
had accompanied Kathleen) and Rouget were present,
the police arrived with Rouget's uncle. Rouget had
been robbing the old man. and he had got out a
Warrant for the arrest ot his nephew.

A" the police went to take hold of Rouget Gabrielle
screamed and threw herself on her knees before the
uncle.

" Do not take blrfl away from hie." she pleaded.

" From you ! " cried the old man in amazement.
Then, turning to his nephew he asked : " What docs
this mean, Raul '! "

" It means that it is through this little idiot that I
have got into all my trouble." said Rouget. " 1 have
tried all I could to get rid of her."

At this Pierre, who had been listening horror struck,
flung himself on Rouget and gripped him by tho
throat.

" What Is between you and my sister ? " he
shouted. " Speak, or I will strangle you."

" Take your hands away," gasped Rouget. " We
were married secretly in Montreal. The only harm I
have done is to myself. 1 got into debt Col her and
stole from my uncie."

Pierre's hands dropped from Rouget and he turned
to his sister.

" Is this true. Gabriellc ? Are you married to tills
man T " he said.

" Yes. It is a.- he says. We were married In
Montreal We kept it a secret because Raul knew
his uncle would disiidierit him if he married a poor
girl." she cried.

Pierre looked from his lister to the man she claimed
as husband.

Galirielle was the onlyTelativc he had In the world,
and much as he disliked Itouget he could not liear
the thought that his sister's hu-band should go to

prison Very slowly he pulled out the money that
was to take him to New York. The amount more
than covered the sum stolen by Rouget, and Pierre
offered it to old Rouget on condition that he would
not prosecute. Rouget's uncle had determined that
Ids nephew should suffer, but though he wished for
revenge he liked money still more. He accepted the
offer.

" But this is madness ! " cried La Touche. " It will
be years before you can save up enough to get to
New York, Pierre. You arc throwing away fame
and fortune to save a scoundrel who has no claim
on you."

" It is for Gabrielle. old friend," said Pierre. " Do
not say any more. My mind is thoroughly made up."

A Year Later.

A YEAR later found Pierre and his sister in New
York. A baby was born to Gabrielle which she
called Pierre, and she would liave been happy
but for one thing. She had discovered that Rouget
had never loved her, and she carried a mark of his
brutality in the shape of a lame leg. She had sus-
taiued the injury in stopping Rouget from stealing
Pierre's violin to pawn for money, and in his rage at
being thwarted, Rouget had thrown her from a
balcony.

Only the pleadings of Gabrielle had prevented
Pierre from killing Rouget. and when he left Verlaine
for New York he warned Rouget that if he ever
attempted to see Uabrielle again he would not hold
himself responsible for what might happen.

Montlis passed, and Pierre was no nearer selling
his symphony than he had been at Verlaine.

He managed to get an engagement playing his
violin at a fashionable restaurant, which enabled him
to keep Gabrielle and himself in comfort, but the
great ambition of his life remained unachieved.

It was while playing in the restaurant that Paul
La Touche found his old friend, and the confectionei
determined that the symphony should be published.
He got in touch with Kathleen Noyes, and through
her influence he prevailed upon the biggest publisher
in New York to attend a musical reception at Miss
Noyes's house to which Pierre was to be invited to
play the masterpiece.

As soon as Robert Rlike got to hear of the reception
he sought out Rouget, and the two began to plot how
they cquld ruin Pierre in the eyes of Kathleen. For
Blake feared to lose Kathleen and Rouget would stop
at nothing to get money.

" We must make a clean job of it this time," said
Blake. " Kathleen keeps postponing the date of our
marriage, and I am certain it is because she is in lovo
with this tiddler. I've got a plan which can't fail,
and I want your assistance to carry it out. Then,
when 1 have disgraced Fournel and married Kathleen,
you will find I shall not forget you. I have pretended
to be very much interested in tlds reception she is
giving, and expressed the hope that Fournel will meet
with the success he deserves. In this way she has no
suspicion. Fournel's sister Is being invited, and
Kathleen is lending her a dress and some of her
jewellery, She will dress in Kathleen's room, and
when they have all gone into the drawing-room for
the recital, I will let you in the house and you can
steal some of Kathleen's jewellery. When the loss is
discovered suspicion must tall on Fournel and his
sister, for I will arrange that he shall also be in tho
dressing-room."

*' That should fix Fournel," said RoHget. " I owe
him more than one grudge and you can depend on mo
to carry tl is thing out."

The Night of the Party.

THE night of the recital arrived. Kathleen S«yc%
had invited all her society friends and the great
publisher.

It was with a feeling of suppressed excitement that
she sat iu her dressing-room waiting the arrival of
Gabriellc.

She found herself asking why she was so anxlom
that Pierre's genius should lie recognised, and though
she tried to persuade herself that sho had done what
she had done in the cause of art, deep in her mind she
realised that there was something In Pierre besido
his musical genius that appealed to her.

She strove to dismiss the thought from her mind.

" I am engaged to Robert Blake," she told herself,
" and he it is 1 must marry. If only tho recital is a
success and Pierre's genius is recognised. 1 must put
him out of my mind for ever, and the sooner I marrr
Roliert the sooner 1 shall forget this dream romance."

Her meditations were interrupted by the arrival ol
Gabriel and Pierre. Kathleen went down to welcome
them, and then she took the girl to her room.

" You must come and see your sister when sh" is
dressed," she called out to Pierre as site went up the
stairs.

Kathleen had chosen one of her best dresses (or

J'icturc Show, Dcanihcr Wi, 19iJ0.

Gabrielle, and when sho was attired Kathleen looked
ut. Iier guest with unfeigned admiration.

" You look perfectly beautiful, dear," she s:iid.
" No wonder your brother is proud of you."

Her maid now began to dress Kathleen and sug-
gested that she should wear a string of pearls.

Kathleen took the pearls in her hand and then put
them down.

" No, I will not wear the pearls to-night," she said.
" Pearls mean tears, and I wish everybody to be as
happy as I feel."

No sooner had the two girls gone downstairs than
Rouget rame in from an inner room in which lie In 1
been hiding, and seizing the pearl necklace he made
his way from the house uusccu by anybody except
J Hake.

The recital was a exeat success and the famous
publisher enthusiastically congratulated Pierre.

" There is no question that your genius will bring
you world-wide fame," he said. " I shall esteem it a
great honour to publish your symphony."

Pierre was naturally delighted, and he sought out
Kathleen to thank her for what she had done for him.

lint there was more than thankfulness in Pierre's
heart as he wont forward to his beautiful hostess,
whom he found alone in the conservatory.

" You have made me famous," he said. " How can
I ever thank you ? "

" No, it is your own genius that has convinced
everybody," said Kathleen. " It was only necessary
that somebody with power to publish your music
should hear you play, and there was never any doubt
in my mind what the verdict would be. I am only too
happy to think that I have been the means of getting
your talents recognised."

" There is something more you could do for me,"
s.iid Pierre softly. " 1 wonder if I dare speak of that
which has been in my heart ever since I met you ?"

A soft flush spread over Kathleen's face and a
bright light tame into her eyes. She knew that if she
i ould only have said " yes to the question that was
on Pierre's lips, she would have been the happiest
woman in the world, but it could not be. At all cost
she must keep her word to Robert Blake.

Before Pierre could say anything further she put
her hand on his arm. B

" I have no right to listen to you," she said. I
am engaged to another."

she held out her hand as she spoke and pointed to
her engagement ring.

" But," she added, " I am deeply sensible of the
honour you would have offered me, and I hope we
shall always be friends."

" Pierre bowed as he kissed her hand.

" I forgot," he said. " I ought to have remembered
Mr. Blake. I hope you will be very happy."

The next moment he had gone.

The Thief.

JUST as the guests were departing, Kathleen's maid
came running into the drawing-room.
" Your jewels — your pearls, miss 1 They have
gone ! "

In an instant all was excitement. Blake rang for
the police while he pretended to search for the pearls,
« hich he knew had been taken by Rouget.

Presently he came back with a handkerchief which
In' showed to Kathleen. It had on it the initial " 6."

" The police found this outside the window of your
dressing-room, " he said. "It belongs to Foumel's
lister, and the police think it was used by the girl to
signal to her accomplice. There is no doubt that she
and her brother are responsible for the robbery. I
always warned you against trusting people of their
class." <0»

"You have no right to say that 1 " exclaimed
Kathleen indignantly.

" I am only saying what the police say, and I sup-
1" se they know their business," replied Blake. " I'm
going with them now."

He hurried away to join the police who were on
their way to Pierre's lodgings.

When they arrived they found the musician and
J.a 'louche were the only ones in the room. Gabrlelle
was asleep in the adjoining apartment. Pierre
looked up in astonishment as Blake followed by th.J
police, entered. Blake came straight to the point of
Lis visit.

" Miss Tfoyes's pearl necklace is missing, and we
have proof that either you or your sister stole it," he
Eaid.

Pierre clenched his fist and strode forward
" It's a lie 1 " he hissed. " How dare you suggest
it ? "

" Perhaps you recognise this ? " sneered Blake
showing him Gabrielle's handkerchief.

Pierre started back. He recollected that he had
seen Rouget hanging about, and he felt that the
scoundrel had forced Gabrielle to steal the jewels. At
all costs, he must save his little sister.

" You are right, it was I who took the necklace,"
he said quietly.

lilake could scarcely repress an exclamation of
triumph. He had not expected this stroke of luck.

Before the detectives led Pierre away he asked to
be allowed to speak to La Touche.

" It is that villain ROuget who made her do it," he
whispered. "But I must take the blame. Look
after Gabrielle, my old friend. The fates are against
me."

Pierre was brought up at the police-court the next
morning, but he did not go to priseon.
Kathleen refused to' prosecute, though she was coin-

(Conlinued on page 28.)

"Once A board the Lugger" ^

A New Hefowortk Film,

ONE can always bo sure of a Hepworl li
film being good, and "Once Aboard
The Lugger " — their latest film — is
no exception to the rule.

The cast of this photo-play is a distinctly
clever one, and includes Eileen Domes,
Gwynno Herbert, Evan Thomas, E. Hol-
m&n Clark, and John MaeAndrews.

A Word About the Story.

EHOLMAN CLARK takes the part of
. Mr. Marrapit, and the most im-
portant thing in his life is his love
for his cat, " The Rose of Sharon."

This wonderful cat plays a big part in
the plot of the story, being tho means of
bringing five hundred pounds to (Jeorge
(Evan Thomas), who requires the money
to buy a medical practice. So all ends
happily for George and the girl he loves,
Mary Humfray (Eileen Dennes).

An amusing incident in " Once Aboard
the Lugger." This film is produced
by Gerald Ames and Gaston Quiribet,
under the personal supervision ot Cecil
M. Hepworth.

Who could resist her ? EILEEN DENNES as Mary Humfray in this new Hepworth film.

Picture anoic, ueccmicr Mh, 1920.

HEART STRINGS."

{Continued front
nape 17. )

polled to believe him guilty in face of his own con-
fession.

But a greater blow was to fall on him.

When he returned to his lodgings and told Oabrielle
what had happened, she denied having touched the-
necklace.

" But," she added, " It. is P>ougct who has done
this. I saw him on the balcony outside Miss Noycs's
dressing-room."

" Rouget I Your husband ? " exclaimed Pierre.

" Alas I I cannot call him husband," replied
Oabrielle. " Since we have been living in New York
he has called on me while you were out, and lie told me
that the ceremony in Montreal was a bogus one."

Pierre's face went dark with fury.

Leading his sister to a chair he raised his hand in a
vow, as he swore he would never rest till he found
Kougc't and made him stand at the altar by his sister's
lide or else he would kill him.

After many weeks of weary search in New York
without finding any trace of Eouget, Pierre decided ho
would go back to Verlaine.

He lived only for one thing — to find Rouget and
make him right the wrong he had done.

One day when he was in his old rooms La Touche
came rushing in with the news that Rouget was in the
blacksmith's shop.

Pierre ran out like a man demented.

At last the hour of his revenge had arrived.

As Rouget saw Pierre rushing into the smithy, his
face went deadly white.

He picked up a heavy hammer and struck at Pierre,
but the latter dodged the blow and tore the weapon
from his grasp.

Then he seized the villain by the throat, and banged
him on the ground.

He would certainly have killed him, but the thought
came to his brain that if he did the wrong done to
Gabrielle would never be righted.

Seizing the thoroughly cowed Kouget by the arm, he
dragged him to the church and sent La Touche for his
sister and a priest.

Then followed one of the strangest weddings ever
leen. Rouget, trembling like the coward he was,
replied to the responses with faltering lips.

Scarcely had the ceremony been completed when a
:arriago drove up and Robert Blake and Kathleen, iu
bridal attire, stepped out.

As they entered the church Rouget pointed to Blako.

" Yon sha'n't get away without any punishment,"
he said. " I have had to pay, and so shall you."

Turning to the bewildered Kathleen, he said :

" It was I who took the pearls. Blake paid me to
do it to bo revenged on Pierre, and make him dis-
graced In your eyes."

Kathleen turned to look at Blake and read the
truth In his face.

" Take me home," she said quietly to one of her
bridesmaids.

A little while later there was another ceremony at
the church. Little Pierre was christened and Kath-
leen was a godmother.

On this occasion she left the church on the arm of
Pierre and before the festivities of the day were over
she had promised to be his wife.

(Adqj>t£dL by permission, from the Fox film

FILMS OF THE WEEK.

The PICTURE SHOW'S Guide to Picturegoers.

"John Petticoats." William S. Hast.
(Paramount- Artcraft. )

BILL " HART, fresh from a lumber-camp,
finds himself the owner of a ladies'
lingerie shop, and to hide his identity
poses as a detective. He finds plenty of ad-ven-
ture and to spare, and becomes enchained in a
tempestuous love affair, which brings everything
to a happy ending. Hart in an unusual role, iu
wliich he gives us full measure of good acting.

"Heartsease." Tom Moore. (Slott.)

VERSATILE Tom Moore in another new
role, that of a young composer whose
opera is stolen. A charming story of
wild hopes and empty pockets, with the star at
his best. Dainty Helene Chadwick supports
him. A film that will please everybody.

" The Idol Dancer." Richard Barthel-
mess and Clarice Seymour. ( Walturdaic.)

DW. GRIFFITH'S latest production. A
, stirring tale of love and adventure in the
South Sea Islands which shows the re-
generation of a beachcomber, ably played by
Richard Barthelmess. Clarice Seymour is
radaint as the idol dancer. Very good, but not
quite up to the Griffith mark.

" A Soul in Trust." Belle Bennett.
( Western Import. )

AN appealing story of the power of mother-
love and a sacred trust. Dealing with
two widely different women, it tells of a
man who met his mother after long years of
separation, but neither knew the other. Good
acting by the whole cast.

" His Temporary Wife." Rubie de Re her.
• (Oaumont.)

A TALE of a nurse, a charming victim of
circumstance, who found herself forced
by hunger to act as temporary wife.
However, all things come right in the end, and
love seals the marriage as permanent. Very
good acting and production.

"Brass Buttons." William Russell.
(Antra.)

WILLIAM RUSSELL as a wealthy man
who, in order to court a supposed
lady's-maid, changes into a constable's
uniform. The complications wliich follow

make much refreshing fun. Amusing an"
entertaining.

"The Gamblers." Harry Mobey. (Vita-
graph.)

EOtJR men gamble in order to save their
. bank, but one turns coward, and it is left
for the youngest man to .take the blame.
This he does, and it is only after long waiting
that he finds happiness with the woman h<*
loves. Agnes .Ayres plays opposite the star.
Acting is exceptionally good.

"The Lady Clare." Mary Odette

(Phillips. )

LORD TEXXYSOX'S world-famous ballad
• as a screen play. A romance of old English
life admirably acted by a large British
cast, and featuring clever Mary Odette as Lady
Clare, a role which she interprets with much
skill. The spirit of the poem is ably reflected
in the screen play. It is a picture that all
English people should see.

"Kitty Kelly, M.D." Bes3ie Bariuscale.

(Jury's.)

ACHARMIXG story of the adventures of a
young woman doctor in the wilds of tha
West. There are many amusing situa-
tions, and much human interest that go to make
this one of the prettiest s.tories in which this
finished actress has played. Average produc-
tion.

"The Lincoln Highwayman." Wu

Russell. (Fox.)

A BRIGHT play that keeps you guessing
until the last reel as to who the Lincoln
Highwayman really is, and then you get
a big surprise. The popular star has a fina
part and acts splendidly. Good entertammeut.

COMEDIES.
" Keep Smiling " is a highly diverting
" Strand " comedy, featuring Georgo ' Ovey,
Billy Fletcher, Yera Reynolds, Stonor Field,
and Harry Depp.

"Good Morning, Nurse." (6. \

perfect scream, featuring the same artistes
iu the above. Warranted to drive the blues

away

The " ricrufcE Show " Critic.

FILM FAULTS.

In this week's episode of the serial " The
Carter Case," the heroine is buried in a mine
explosion, and is rescued by the hero, looking
ready to enter a ballroom instead of being dug
out of about ten ton of stones and wood girders.
— 5s. awarded to Mnisie Cochrane, 4G, Picton
Street, Montpelier, Bristol.

A Few of trie Prize- ::

winners in tkis Competition.

the announcement appeared exactly the same
words that had accompnnied the exposure of
the loan so long before. — 5s. awarded to Edna
Smith, 39, Posbrooko Road, Milton, Portsmouth,
Hants.

In the picture " An Eastern Maid," Doucet
and Wyndam go in motor-cars to the farm
where the heroine, Fanny Ward, is staying, mid
although they both go iu a different car and at
different times, both cars bear the same identi-
fication number, namely XX4510.— 5s. awarded
to (Miss) E. M. Goldthorpc, 55, Cliffe Field Road,
Meersbrook, Sheffield.

In " Mary Moves In," with Fay Tincher, a
telephone is 6een on the library table. Some-
one calls over the 'phone a few minutes later,
a moving van comes and takes away the furni-
ture. Two men carry out the table, and the
telephone goes out with the table. — 5s. awarded
to A. Gollntly, Time Office, Wm. Boardmore and
Co., Duko Street, Parkhcad, Glasgow.

In " Sunken Rocks." starring Alma Taylor
and Gerald Ames, the man playing the part of
Miss Taylor's husband drops down dead in tha
midst of a quarrel between him and Mr. Ames.
As Mr. Ames is trying to make the room look
as if a struggle has taken place, he stepped acrom
-the dead man's legs. The dead man moved his
foot to prevent it being stood upon.- — 5a.
awarded to (Miss) G. Colthorpe, 1, Stevenson
Road, Ipswich, Suffolk.

In " Dew Drop Inn," the photo-play starring
Larry Semon, he climbs up through a chim-
ney. When he reaches the top he is no mora
dirty than before he started. This would
be a bit of a miracle for a chimney, wouldn't it !
— 5s. awarded to Violet Moses, 61, Morden Road,
Newport, Mon.

I noticed nn error in the filming of " The
Chinese Puzzle." In the scene where they were
having tea on the lawn, as the picture changed
so did also the table-cloth. One was a crochet
design, while the other was plain, and yet it
was the same meal. — 5s. awarded to N. Farrcll,
10, Eldon Streot, Chatham.

In "The Chinese Puzzle," starring Leon M.
Lion, the betrayed details of the British loan to
China, when published in the newspaper were
flunked on either side by a partially visible
column of other matter. Later, in the same
photo-play, after a presumable lapse of months,
Roger De La Haye s resumed Government ap-
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Phture C/iow, December Mh, 1920.

ART AND THE MOVIES.

Interview w
Haidee Wright.

HAIDEE WRIGHT.

[Photo : Foulsham <t- Banfield.)

IN many respects
Haidce Wright
defies classifica-
tion ; she seems
outsido the confines
of all categoric?.
It is impossible
to explain exactly
why this is so, ono
only knows that it
in. A slight, almost
fragile woman of
middle-age, with
eyes of a haunting
sadness and a won-
derfully sensitive
mouth, she immedi-
ately conveys an
impression of
strength, of a
tremendous mental and spiritual virility, in a
manner which is both rernarUable and awe-
inspiring. I can quite imagine that she might
— that she will — smile at the suggestion that
there is anything in her personality calculated
to striko awe in the soul of the spectator, for
no one could be more simple, sincere and
wholly human than she; but beneath her
sudden, unexpected tendernesses her simplicity
— which in a mistaken moment one might take
for diffidence — and her general warm-hearled-
ness, there is always this impression of strength ;
repressed, controlled, magnificent.

There was ono dramatic moment. I had
referred to Miss Wright's recent vehicle, '" The
Unknown," and the big theme that play presents,
at the same time remarking upon the enormous
disseminating power of the film as contrasted
with the more restricted appeal of the stage.

"7 he film is so powerful," remarked Miss
Wright, " that 1 am jealous of it."

She said it quietly, without emphasis, yet I
cannot hopo to reproduce the effect of that
utterance. It was as if Force was challenging
force.

Art— and the Middle Man.

YET this distinguished stage artiste is by no
means antagonistic to the film, far from it.
She is only anxious that a power with such
potentialities for good, or evil, should be
directed in 11)3 right channels, for the cinema
is the night-school that young America and
young Britain regularly attend. An enter-
tainment of such universal appeal should bo
raised with all possible speed from its present
position of an industry to tho status of an art.

" When an author writes a book or play, ho
does not. if ho is a sincere artist, subordinate his
art to his financial instincts," observed Miss
Wright. " His primary object in writing his
boolc or play lies in his own personal interest in
the theme he has in mind, and in his absorbing
desire to communicate that thetno to others in
the most artistic manner. But in the film world,
a story is too often written with an eye on tho
middle-man, the man who will buy the film, and
to the end that he may be pleased, all other
considerations are subordinated. It will be
argued that the middle-man is, above all, a
business man, and not a philanthropist. The
same may be said of a publisher, or a theatrical
manager. Yet, it quite often happens that a
publisher puts a good book on the market, and a
manager presents a fine play on the stage,
without suffering financial loss thereby. For
the general public — opinions to the contrary,
notwithstanding — is not incapable of appreciat-
ing a genuine work of art when it sees it."

Adaptations.

MISS WRIGHT thinks that the public has a
legitimate grievance in that so many of
it3 favourite books and plays suffer at tho
hands of the film adapter ; that people may ask
with justice : Since we do not see on the screen
what we found in our book (or play), why (rouble
to give us adaptations at all ?

" There are exceptions, of course," she said.
' The Lure of Crooning Water,' for instance.

appointed in the film version. Presented
exactly ns tho author intended, beautifully
played, without a single part being distorted,
both theme and characters were as near the
originals as you could possibly get them. And
it was a British picture. 1 am proud that it wo«.
Useless to deny, of course, that tho .Americans
are ahead of us in film production (though 1 do
not think they aro so far ahead as some would
have ns believe), but I do think that the British
picture is improving every day of its life.

The Star System.

IN ono respect, at least, I think the Americans
aro more at fault than wo are. 1 refer to
tho star system. I am not averse to stars,
indeed I think they are neces.aiy; but 1 do
object to a system whereby stories aro so
frequently distorted in order to throw the star
into undue prominence. The result is usually
all star and no story.

Types, not Human Beings.

AT 'the commencement of this article, I said
that Miss Wright defies classification.
This is as true of her work as of the artiste
herself. Therefore it is not surprising that she
should deplore tho stereotyped characters of tha
average photo-play.

" The scenarioist mostly writes for three
types," she remarked. " If you are middle-
aged, then you must portray a woman who is
not only is elderly, but cruel and wicked ; if
you are a girl, then you must be tho virtuous and
ill-used heroine ; if you are a hero, you must be
heroic. Tho trouble is that one is so seldom a
human being ; only a type, and types are fatal
to stories of human interest."

Yet Miss Wright has succeeded in being a
human being on the screen, as you will be able to
testify when you have seen " Aunt Rachel,"
" In Bondage," and " Colenel Newcome.'' But
then she is a great artiste, and art, like truth,
will out.

May Hersokex Cr.Ar.KE.

1 liked the book, and I certainly was not dis-

Off to the Carnival — Choosing Your Fancy Dress — Simple
and Original Ideas the Most Popular- Many Frocks on
One Foundation — The Picture Girl's "Domino" Dress.

IN THE DRESSING-ROOM.

WHO can resist a fancy dress carnival ?
Very few dancers, anyway. There is
suqh an air of gaiety and joy imparted
from the dance that demands " fancy dress
only," that few girls (or men) care to refuse an
invitation when it comes their way. Still, one
vory frequently hears grumbles about " not
being able to go because they do not possess a
fancy frock." Yet this should in no way deter
anyone from going, for a fancy dress can bo
fashioned quite quickly, and tho expense neod
bo so slight as to be hardly noticeable.
The idea of a fancy dress having to be elaborate,
and therefore expensive, is a stupid one; for
some of the cheapest and simplest of frocks
are often the most becoming, and frequently
carry off the best prizes. The chief necessity
for a fancy frock is novelty and originality.

Topical Ideas.

THERE are heaps and heaps of topical ideas
that can be represented by fancy dress.
At a recent carnival — a film carnival,
too — one of tho best prizes was taken by a girl
who had not spent a single penny of money
or a moment of time upon her frock. The dress
represented " Summer, 1920," and the girl
wore merely an ordinary mackintosh leather
hat, and carried an umbrella — up ! You will
agree that here was originality worthy of
recognition.

Another practically costless' fancy frock can
be evolved from a large piece of cretonne. It
is to represent a " Knitting Bag," very topical
when every other girl you.meet has fallen to the
knitting craze. The frock is short, and com-
prises a bag-like affair made of cretonne, the
legs slipped through a couple of holes in tho
lower part of the bag, and the arms slipped
through slits in the sides. A frill, about a couplo
of inches in depth, stands up at the neck, so
that it looks as if tho head is peeping up from
out of the bag ! Strings hang from either
shoulder, to represent the tapes of the bag ;
wnile upoti the top of the head a small frill of

• . v. 3

No. 28,649.
A pretty " Domino " fancy
dress specially designed by
the Editress of " Home

Fashions."

the material is ar-
ranged with a ball
of wool
y a n d a
couplo of
k n itting
n o e d les
slipped
through.

Fashioned
From Pieces.

ODDS and
Ends "
is an-
other costless fancy
dross. This can bo
mado for either a man
or a girl. In the caso
of tho latter, it, should
bo fashioned with
skirt and blouse ;
while for the man a
pyjama stylo is best
choice The founda-
tion is made of
common calico, and
tho whole is simply
covered with odds
and ends of material,
pieces of paper, and
any other small
" odd " objects you
can think of.

"Patches" is
another dress of
this type, and very
effective it looks
when brightly
coloured pieces of
material, in fairly
large pieces and in
odd shapes, are
attached all over
the foundation frock.

Many Frocks in One.

/\ LITTLE black foundation frock will bo
found invaluable to the girl who attends
many fancy-dress dances. With the aid
of a lot of red tape she can convert it into a
" Red Tape " frock. The tape should be wound
round the figure, and allowed to stray looso at a
number of places. Another time the foundation
c^uld be decorated with silver stars, and a
moon placo I on the front to represent " Night."
Then, again, worn with a great big frill of white
at tho throat, and white bobbles at intervals,
it would mako a pretty little "Pierrette" frock.

Large circles of brightly coloured silk sewn
upon it here and there, and a neck frill of
multi-colours would convert it again into a
" Balloon " frock, this time a bunch of gas-
rilled balloons being suspended from one
shoulder.

A white foundation frock would be equally
useful, to be converted with tho assistance of
cotton-wool, holly and " frost," into " Winter."
With the aid of large webbed sleeves of ninon.
rows of beads, and an imitation spider, it could
be transformed into a delightful "'Cobweb."

A "Domino" Frock.

THE Picture Girl had a wish for her fancy
dress to be simple as well as original,
and for that reason she chose tho
" Domino " illustrated on this page. The
foundation frock is of black sateen, and tho
panels of white satin, with spots of black velvet
upon them.

The Magyar bodice is joined at the waist to
the skirt, while the dominoes form panels
both back and front; and are held into the waist
by a sash. A white ribbon band, dotted with
black, encircles the head ; while the white fan
is also decorated with black spots.

You can obtain patterns of this fancy frock,
in 24-inch waist size only, for Is. each, from
PICTURE SHOW Pattern Dept., 291a, Oxford
Street, London, W.i. P.O. to be made payable
to the PICTURE SHOW

ricture Show, December Zth, 1920.

When It's No Use
Pretending.

THE PRACTICAL WOMAN
AND HER GREY HAIR.

If you want to- know anyfchiricy about Films or Film Players

.- '"THE gayest of us have our moments of hollow
J. depression. Sooner or later we all have
to give up pretending, even to ourselves,
and relapse into unhappy candour.

At no time, if one is a woman, docs one feel
more acutely miserable than when one faces
one's mirror in a clear, cold light, and marks
the first signs of the " going off " of- one's
charms. I know a very charming and so-
phisticated woman whose nightmare is that she
may one day find herself in the situation be-
loved by novelists — that is, alone or nearly
alone on a desert island. " Just fancy," she
wails, " having no comb or looking-glass or
hairpins, and, worst of all, no tammalite.
Because, do you realise, that I should actually
be grey ? " To see her soft, brown hair one
would suspect her of perverting the truth. But
she frankly assures her friends that her hair
would be nothing without an occasional timely
application of a tonic made of bay rum and
pure tammalite. " It brings back all the
colour," she affirms, " besides making one's
hair beautifully healthy. Why, I was in
despair a year or two ago, because my hair was
growing grey in streaks. But since I discovered
tammalite, I haven't the slightest difficulty in
keeping my hair its normal shade."

And what a difference beautiful hair makes
to any woman. It excuses plainness, it en-
hances beauty. What man pictures the woman
of his dreams with anything but soft, abundant
hair ? From Rapunzel to Mclissande, there
is something romantic about lovely locks. It is
deplorable nowadays to see naturally
beautiful hair ruined by neglect, curling irons,
harmful shampoos, and the like. Many girls,
otherwise careful of their good looks, think
nothing of going to bed without brushing their
hair. Without constant brushing the hair can
never attain to that glossy " sheeny " look
that is so delightful. A good brushing for
fifteen minutes night and morning should be
included in the discipline of every woman,
plain and pretty: A stiffish brush should be
used, and it should be always scrupulously
clean.

It is not good enough to use just any
shampoo when washing the hair. Care should
be taken to find the very best one, and then to
keep to it. A really excellent idea is to use only
stallax granules, which are obtainable at all
good chemists. A teaspoonful of stallax is
sufficient for each shampoo, so a J lb. packet
will last for a long time.

This very simple shampoo gives splendid
results. The delicious foaming lather it makes
not only cleanses the hair "thoroughly, but
brings out every atom of its latent colour and
brightness. The hair dries quickly, and though
beautifully soft, it is quite manageable.

When the scalp is inclined to be dry. and the
hair brittle, it is a good plan to massage it with
olive oil before giving it a stallax shampoo.

There arc few things which increase one's
self-respect so much as the possession of lovely
hair. It is a perpetual joy to oneself and
others, and with a little care, one can defv
hairpin-scattering winds and even trying, if
lomantic, situations on an uninhabited
island.

TARKER BELMONT S CI.YNOL BERRIES
FOR OBESITY. [A DVT.]

STUPID COMEDIES.

IF criticism continues to be directed ajainst some of
the screen comedies which are being given us
to-day, it is simply because the public is becoming
obviously more bored than amused by such produc-
tions. So many ol them are being turned out from the
studios with a kind of mechanical rapidity that it is
not surprising that the humour in these turns is stale
and flat. In fact, the majority of those who see them
simply refuse to admit they are amusing.

I was impressed by this fact the other night in a
picture theatre when the item in the programme
happened to be styled a " comedy." It depicted, of
course, the usual bevy of bathing girls, without which
no " real comedy " nowadays is apparently con-
sidered complete. But, bad enough as this recent
and senseless innovation might be, it was rendered
worse by the introduction of some of the old tricks
that one remembered having seen in the days when
the motion picture was really in its infancy.. There
was the familiar hotel corridor with the two bedrooms
one on each side, the same old rush from one to the
other, and the tumbling of human forms over one
another in a frantic, meaningless scramble. The
film was not a re-issue, but a new one, and typical of
similar comedies which are being shown to-day up
and down the country. In my mind I tried to picture
in this case bow very funny it must have appeared to
the producer, and how undoubtedly hard the artistes
must have worked in their somewhat pathetic efforts to
amuse. Yet the audience was coldly unappreciative.
The whole film was viewed without the sound of a
single laugh being heard.

It is by no means an isolated instance, as many can
prove. Elsewhere this same type of comedy is being
received with the same silence, and the absence of
the laughter it is expected to raise should be sufficient
proof of its failure to amuse. Yet there is no sign of
its immediate disappearance. And unless some
vigorous protest is made it will continue to bore us,
with only the word '.' comedy " to remind us that it
is intended to be something at which we ought to
laugh 1

THE EDITOR.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Will readers kindly remember that as this paper
goes to press a considerable time before publica.
tion, letters cannot be answered in the next issue ?
A stamped and addressed envelope must accom-
pany any letter requiring an early reply. Every
letter should give the full name and address of
the writer (not for publication), as no anonymous
communications can be answered. Address : The
Editor, "Picture Show," Room 85, The Fleetway
House, Farringdon Street London, E.C.4.

A Correction-.— The answer to " Myra " (Liver-
pool) in the issne for November 13th. should have
read " But now definite news has been received to the
effect that she (Pearl White) is married to Wallace
McCutchcon, etc. Alas, the "w" in "now" was
left out , thus giving my reply a different meaning.
Yes, you can blame that imp, the printers devil, if
you like.

" Canada Struck " (Abbey Wood).— So your
mother and you have been having a strong argument
all over a stout person who was seated in the lighting
scene of " Broken Blossoms." I am sorry this stout
person is causing all this domestic unhappincss ; but
if he was somewhere in the audience, he was certainly
not introduced by name. The boxers, of course,
were Donald Crisp and Kid McKoy. Junnita Hansen
was the heroine in " The Brass Bullet."

E. C. (Catford). — I don't keep any notes of the
weights of artistes, because it's information which
cannot always be depended on. Patty Arhuckle, for
instance, may decide to grow heavier than before ;
and Gale Henry thinner still. There's no knowing
what changes like that may take place. Maciste has
appeared in " Cabiria " and Maciste, Alpine
Soldier."

" Mab " (Bradford). — This department favours the
instalment system. A few each time is better than a
lot at once. In answer to your three questions.
Gladden James was born in Zancsville. Ohio, and has
played in " The Heart of Wetona," " The Social
Secretary," and " The Third Degree." He has yellow
hair and blue eyes. Armand Kalisz was Doucet in
" An Eastern Maid." In the cast of " The Lone
Star Ranger," the chief players were William Faro am,
Louise Lovely, anil Raymond Nye. Y'ou needn't
forget to write again. You are welcome.

" Ixqi isitive (Brentwood). — Y'our resolution as
a new reader to take this paper all your life is a good
one. May your years be many. At present. Norma
Talmadge is the only married sister of the three.
Mary Miles Mintcr is single, and her age is eighteen.
Virginia Faire, whose rcai name is Brown, is quite a
newcomer to the screen, and she will doubtless tell us
more about herself later.

" Nil Desperandum " (Tynesmouth).— Well, 1
don't want to make you despair, ton you may have
better luck next time with your other questions.
The only information I can discover just now is that
concerning John Bowers. Some of his Alms are :
" Joan of the Woods," " Sis Hopkins," " Daughter
of Mine," " The Divorce Game," " Through ttie
Wrong Door," and " The Pest." He was born in
Indiana on December 27th, 1391, and is married to
liita Heller.

" Devon Entbtsiast " (Ilfracombe).— Write to
Harrison Ford again and gently jog his memory. It
you send him a letter like you liave sent me, he won't
find it in his heart to refuse. Now to your questions.
Madge Kennedy and Tom Moore in " The Danger
Game " ; Rowland Hill, Bob Read, and Robert
Balicc in " Kilties Three " ; June Elvidgc and Geo.
McQuarrie in " The Tenth Case " ; Gerafdine Farrar
and Wallace Reid in " The Woman God Forgot " :
and Olga Petrova and Thomas Holding in " Tlie
Daughter of Destiny." Y'es, you can get back
numbers from the publisher of this paper. No, you
must buy the whole set of postcards, but you will
find it worth doing.

M. M. (Wallington). — Douglas MacLcan does not
state his age, but, as to the rest, I can tell you he was
born in Philadelphia, has brown hair and eyes, and
is 5 ft. 10 in. in height. His wife is a noii-profes-
sional. William Farnum, who was born on July -1th,
1876, is married to Olive White.

E. W. (Stoke Newington). — I am afraid I cannot
promise to give any particular art plate within a
given' time, but one of your favourites will appear in
due course. Ruth Roland has reddish-browu hair
and dark blue eyes, and was born twenty-four years
ago in San Francisco. Her mother, Elizabeth
Houser, was at one time a well-known singer.

" Inkstand " (Stonehouse). — Producers and others
dont seem to think, somehow, that the proper giving
of the cast is an important item, but they will pro-
bably change their minds some day. In " The Man
in the Mask " the three names I have are those of
Rene Creste. Millie. Manes, and Ed. Mat he. Lewis
Stone was the star in " A Man's Desire," and Herbert
Prior was the artiste you want in " A Model's Con-
fession."

" Ta-Please (Wallasley).— Herbert Rawlinson
was opposite Mabel Noruiand ia " Back to the
Woods.''

M. B. (St. JamesV — Glad to hear this paper is doing
so well in your part of the world. Hete is a list of
Betrv Btvtne's pictures as requested. ."Tangled
Lives," " The Green God." " The Silver Horde," " A
Game with Fate." " Over the Top," " The King of
Diamonds." and " The Busiuess of Life,"

" CODY " (Chatham). — What strange new job is
this you have found in the Army, of keeping ffw
books relating to different information about Dim
stars ? I am curious. Y'our first list, howevet. is
much too long for me to tackle all at once, so I will
select three for a start. Ksthryn Adams was born
on May 25th. 1807: in St. Louis. Mo., and has blonde
hair and dark grey eyes. Her height is 5 ft. 7 ins.
May Allison was born in Georgia in 1808, and slm
is two inches shorter. Her hair is golden, and her
eyes blue. Janet Alexander only tells us that she
has greeny-grey eyes, blonde hair, and Is married
to Lauderdale Maitland. If you are going to work
down the whole alphabet. I wish you a long and
pleasant time.

(More answers next week.)

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for any u.blr. ~ by post. |,„t j[ you wish to com-
niunicatc at onto with any artiste not named below
write your letter, putting the name of the star on Hie
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to the Editor, the P11TCRE SHOW, Room 85. The
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nnd it will be forwarded by the next mail. A lett-r
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that such letters will be answered. Please keep these
addresses for reference.

ALAN FORREST, WANDA n.VWLEY. care ot
Rcalart Pictures Corporation. 4'.!>, Fifth Avenue,
New York City. VJB \

TOM MOORE, care of Goldwyn Film Co., Culver
City. California. I S A.

ENRICO CARl'SO. care of Lasky Studios. Vine
Street, Hollywood, California, I 5 \

MA RJ OR IE HL'ME, CECIL HUMPHRIES, care
of Stoll Studios Regency House, Park Road SurbKon.

(More addresses next week.)

Picture Show, December 4/A, 1920.

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Famous Readers of the " Picture
Show.

No. 48 -RUBY MILLER.

RUBY MILLER, whom you see above, is a
very talented member of the .Stoll Film
Company. Besides being a screen star
of note, and playing the leading part in the
Stoll film version of E, Phillips Oppenheim's
thrilling story "The Mystery of Mr. Bernard
Brown," Miss Miller has made a name for her-
self on the stage. .She is also a particularly gifted
character reader. I remember her in charge of
a charity stall in aid of the Red Cross during the
war, where she was able to add considerably to
the total by her clever delineations.

Big Money Prize May be Yours,

IT is some time since we have had n compe-
tition, and I know the one on page 23 will
interest you all immensely. For one thing,
there is no cost to enter. It is interesting to try
to solve the words hidden in the pictures, and a
big money prize may be yours. A good, enough
inducement to enter, don't you think ?

Turn to page 23. and see if you do not
think you stand a chance of winning a prize.

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Don't Miss This. ■

THE " Girls' Cinema " has a particularly in-
t cresting article in this creek, describing
simple Christmas gifts which are being
made by well-known Cinema stars. Other in-
teresting features in this new paper for girls
is a pen picture of Jack Mullhall, one of Nazi-
mova. a page edited by Alma Taylor, and a long
complete story of the fino photo -play, the
" Grey Towers Mystery," in which Gladys
Leslie plays the leading part.

The " Girls' Cinema" is a fine twopenny-
worth. Buy this week's and see for yourself. •

A Real Boys' Paper.

IUST a word about the " Boys' Cinema.''
I There are the usual fine complete stories,
<* including a real Wild West tale by Tom Mix.
A long instalment of " The Return of Tarzan,"
the splendid jungle tale by Edgar Rice Bur-
roughs, a fine series of Physical Culture articles
by that expert Bill Duncan, and the usual
articles of fun and interest. If you are a boy.
or if you know a boy friend, you'll be interested
in' this week's issue.

Couldn't Do This With a New One.

READERS who complain that things are not
as good now. as they were before the war,
... will be interested in the following para-
graph. *• •

In the coming Lionel Barrymore play, entitled
" The Master Mind," a car was bought for the
specific purpose of wrecking it, and the com-
pany found that it was next to impossible to
accomplish this object.

The idea was to have the ear break through a
stout fence and fall down a sharp declivity,

turning over in the process. Tn order to get
the desired effect they had to do this five times,
and even then, after the fifth time, when the car
was turned up again on its wheels, they were
able to start the motor, and drive it away on its
own power. The first four times the car
smashed through the fence, but absolutely
refused to turn over, landing right side up tin all
occasions. It was an old roadster uf 1911 make.

Our Picture of Nazimova.

OUR centre page this week — the 16 by 20
picture of Nazimova — is in answer to
numerous requests for a picture of this
wonderful artiste. I am son the picture will
justify your many letters. It is a reproduc-
tion of Nazimova's favourite picture. I hope
it will please you.

Teddy's New Contract.

ONE of the most famous dogs in pictures is
to sign a new contract. This, of course, is
Teddie, who has starred in half a hundred
comedy films.

Teddie's contract expires with Mack Sennet t
next January, and immediately following he
will be starred in special pictures. Teddie's
contract calls for a salary that wilt enable him
to have roast turkey every day if he so desires.

A Welcome Gift.

MILDRED DAVIS recently received a letter
from a little admirer in Cork. The girl
wrote " I love you very much, and I am
sending you half a dozen handkerchiefs which 1
hemstitched and worked with your initials. I
know it is not much of a present for a fine lady."

Miss Davies says she hastened to assure her
Irish friend that beautiful linen is becoming
very rare in America, and that she appreciated
the hand-hemstitched hankies very much
indeed.

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A Year Ago.

DID you know that Miss Madge Stuart was
playing the part of an unimportant slave
in that particularly long -lived play at

His Ma jesty's. " Chu Chin Chow," a year ago ?
To-day she is one of our best-known British
screen actresses.

Commencing with a small part in the Btoll
picture version of Baroness Orczy's '' E!u-..\ ••
Pimpernel," she was given the one feminine rate
in "The Amateur Gentleman," and now in the
screen version of Marie Corelli's famous novi 1
'' Innocent," she has displayed consideral ' ■
emotional power.

She is now in France, making the outdo, r
scenes for "A Gentleman of France." which
Mr. Maurice Elvey, the producer, is now be-
ginning.

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I Wonder ?

SUPERSTITIOUS people make me tired."
said Buster Keaton, when he spilled i
few grains of salt at luncheon the other
day. ,,

Just then the man across the table whom he
was addressing turned his head to greet a friend
who had just entered the restaurant. He
wasn't sure, but he thought he caught a fleet ii g
glimpse of Buster tossing a pinch of salt over his
left shoulder. It couldn't be true.

On the way to the door of the cafe a large
cat sauntered across the path of Buster and his
friend. The friend saw that Buster had crossed
the second and index finger of either hand, but
he didn't know whether it was a habit or not.

Buster's studio was but half a street away,
and he was hurrying to complete " The Scare-
crow," his third Metro picture. In front of a
tailor's shop en route stood a ladder, and at the
top was a man erecting an awning. Just befote
reaching this point, Buster requested that hrs
friend cross the street to look at a peculiar
watch in a jeweller's window. They didn't
recross until they got opposite the studio.

As they reached the " lot " the gafeman
stooped and plucked a four-leaf clover from the
gras-s.

" Four-leaf ciover.' grunted Buster. " Foolish-
ness, that's all. Just* plain' supersfitios. 1
hope I ne%'er get that way."- ,

The arrival of the broker's man in the hero's flat, a splendid scene in the Hepworth film version of
Temrle Thurston's most famous novel, "The City of Beantifnl Nonsense," in which HENFY

EDWARDS plays the leading part.

Picture Shew, December llt/i, 1920.

"PICTURE SHOW" CHAT.

(Continued fiom
sage 3.)

George Will Never Forget.

f EORGE WALSH, as you know, is an a!l-
Vj round athlete. He has been in many tight
corners during his screen career, and tells
of his luckiest escapo from death.

" We were producing a picture out in Col-
orado," said Walsh. " In one of the scenes the
heroine falls into the river, and I have to dive
in to rescue her. My leading lady fell into the
river all right, but the company realised a moment
1 iter that it was going to be a real rescue. As it
was in spring, the river was in flood, and rushing
along at a rapid rate. The girl screamed for
help, but as soon as I touched the water I knew
I was going to have great difficulty in getting
ashore again.

" However, I managed to get hold of her,
although tho current was carrying us down
stream at a terrible speed. Suddenly my head
struck a bit of flotsam, and I lost consciousness
for a moment. When the faint ness passed away,
the girl was some yards down the river ahead of
me. I made another attempt to reach her,
swimming my utmost, and eventually caught
hold of her again.

" By this time I was in a pretty bad way, but
to make matters worse, the girl lost her head,
and clutching me around my neck commenced
to struggle. The last thing that> I remembered
was that my strength was nearly gone, and I
suppose I must have made a supreme but
successful struggle for the shore.

" It was an experience that I shall never forget,
and needless to say we did not make any more
scenes that day. Both of us were badly shaken
up, but after a few days' rest we went back and
finished the picture."

Cullen Landis and His Adventures.

A RECEPTION has just been held at the
Goldwyn studio to celebrate the safe
,j return of Cullen Landis, who was lost for
two days and one night in the mountains
without food.

Landis started out with five friends on a deer
hunting expedition. He struck the trail of a
deer, and wandered oft from his companions,
lost all sense of direction, and was soon com-
pletely lost.

The first night he stayed in a cave. The
weather was extremely cold, but he lighted a lire.
This drew a pack of coyotes, which
howled at the actor, but made no at-
tempt to attack him. Hp had seven
matches and eight shells for his gun,
and a plentiful supply of cigarettes.
The mountain streams furnished water.

At dusk of the second day, Landis
mounted a high mountain to make it
survey of his surroundings. Great
was his surprise to see two tents. Ho
approached, . and found an old pro-
spector and his family. They prepared
for him an appetising supper of venison
steal;. Tho next morning tho pro-
spector guided Landis back to his camp
— a distance ef .twenty three miles,
impassable except , by foot.

On his return, Landis found the whole
country-side out looking for him. His
friends had been searching frantically,
and had almost given up hope of
finding him.

. "I wouldn't take a million of money
for the experience ; but I wouldn't
give a copper for another just like
it," said Landis.

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Charlie's New Part.

CHARLES RAY says he has never
revelled in such a part as that in
which he is now appearing, en-
titled " Nineteen— and Phyllis. "« In
this play ho appears in up-to-date
garb, a smart young nineteen-year-old.
He puts more inimitable touches in his
character role of a boy who cherishes
memories of an old-fashioned rearing,
and gets much ridicule for it.

MAE MARSH. A late
snapshot of this clever
star, who is coming back
to the screen again after
some months1 absence.

GARETH HUGHES, who is
to play the part of Tommy
in the coming film version
of Sir J. M. Barrie's "Sen-
timental Tommy.''

course got no wages, as he was doing it for fun.
As he was leaving, Rogers overheard a cowboy
say, " Some guys have got a queer idea of a
holiday " ; but Rogers says that he has never
spent such an enjoyable four days' holiday.

The Part Luck Plays.

THE general impression is that favouritism,
or beauty or grace, or unusual gifts
have smoothed the path for the success-
ful stars." says a well-known director. " It is no
one of these gifts, nor even a combination of
them, that has counted for much in many
ease.?. Luck has played its part — the good
fortune of falling into the hands of the right
producer or director, or of having the support
of a good team of fellow players. But no one
knows, or will ever know, the countless number
who have failed on the screen.

" But for the. most part success has com?
because of the tireless effort in malting use of
what power or gift 9 they possessed, and yet a
long observation has shown me that neither
luck nor talent puts more than one in a hundred
of the ambitious to the front. Therefore there
are a thousand mathematical odds against even
the clever girl. For every one who advances
to the front, ninety-nine of those who try slip
out of the game sadly disillusioned."

Fay Filmer.

Will's Busman's Holiday.

WILL ROGERS recently had four
days' holiday, and spent it
helping a friend brand 3,000
ralves in Texas. He spent ten hours a
toy in most strenuous work, and of

DALY COOPER and MABEL LAIT, who are soon to be seen in British
comedies. Daly Cooper began bis stage career at the age of Ave in a
Dniry Lane pantomime, and since in numerous musical comedies and
pantomimes. Mabel Lait also is a musical comedy star, and bas
played principal boy in many pantomimes. It was Miss I. nt that
played Dick Wbittington in that pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre, ,
London, in the 1919-1920 season.

FROM " OVER THERE.''

Notes and News ¥rom New YorK.

MABEL NORMA*ND, scintillating, effer-
vescent, and wondrously gowned in a
pale blue and pink evening frock, came
dashing into Florence Reed's dressing-room tho
other evening.

Florence Reed is making a great success in
" The Mirage," a new play w hich recently
l opened in one of New York's new theatres, and
Mabel's visit was to tell Florence that she had
cried her eyes out over the sad ending of the play.

" Why didn't you let Renie go to the country
and start life anew ? " said Mabel.

" Renie isn't a really big character," ex-'
plained Florence. " A girl used to the fleshpots.
of life, and who has never paid any attention to
the demands of society, wouldn't he content to
live in a little country town. She would leave
her husband and come back to her lover in ft
month."

' The country isn't so bad," argued Mabel,
" not when you get used to it. Look at these,"
sho said, extending- a pair of badly calloused
hands. " I have been playing golf and living
the simple life."

Mabel dieted rather strenuously to attain a
proper slenderness for " The Slim Princess," a
picture she recently completed for the Goldwyn
Company, and as a result is now underweight
and anemic. She is drinking gallons of milk
to get fat, and is weighing herself with scrupu-
lous earo to report every added ounce to her
physician. Mabel never takes any care of
herself, and her friends have now taken her in
hand and prevailed upon her to try and keep
tho roses in her cheeks.

Her eyes seemed to me larger and deeper
than ever.

" Look at these lashes," said Florence Reed.
" You could braid them."

" Braids aro out," answered Mabel. " Bobbed
hair is in vogue."

Mabel never loses her good spirits ; she always
has an epigram, or at least an answer, on tho
tip of her saucy little tongue. But as one man
said once, in speaking of the gay little lady :

" You lovo Mabel not because of, but in
spite of her mischievous pranks. She scatters
her smiles broadcast, takes everyone to her heart,
and then promptly goes away, forgets all about
them until she meets them by accident again."
But one feels it is a joy to know Mabel, and
tho world is better for having had her
here.

Back From Sweden.

DO you remember Winifred West-
over ? She is the little blonde
girl who played in so many of
Cliarles Ray and W. S. Hart pictures.
Well, Winifred is just back from
Sweden, . where sho starred in two
special productions made for the Film
Central la Company. Having a Swedish
,ancost,ry brought about this Scandi-
navian affiliation, which Miss West over
has found exceedingly profitable.

This is tho way it u'l- happened, if
I may be pardoned for going into
history, five months old. The Swedish
Film Company sent a nowspapcr
woman to California from Stockholm
for tho openly expressed purpose of
obtaining a screen a< tress, Swedish-
American preferred. Tho newspaper
woman landed in California with a list
containing the names of Anna <}.
Nillsson, Gloria Swanson, and Juanita
Hansen. Each of these young women
wcro tied down with a contract, and for
that reason were unable to consider going
to Europe. W. S. Hart said to her,
one day when sho was calling on him :
What about my little Swede ? "
Winifred is blonde, young, and lovely,
and within a week all arrangements
were made for her to sail for Sweden,,
Denmark, and Norway with her mother.

" And it's a mighty good thing I had
mother with me," said Winifred. " Sho:
had to interpret every lino of the
scenario and every word of direction J
received — for tho first month at least.
After that tho language came easy to
me, and I could understand their
tonsrue as well as my own Cnited
States. ' lOueixa O. Parsons.

ricturc Show, Dtecmbir llUi, 1920.

CAUGHT BY THE CAMERA FOR THE " PICTURE SHOW."

Don't yon like this new studio portrait o! An amusing incident in " All's Button," the British screen comedy produced by Cecil M. Hepworth. LESLIE
CHRISSIE WHITE, the popular Hepworth HENSON, the popular actor who is appearing in " A Night Out," at the Winter Garden Theatre, London, is ■
star ? starred in this film, and can be seen on the right oi the picture.

KATE LESTER in a typical character study, dreaming by the fireside, in which " Tiger's Cub," which had such a successful run at a London theatre, has
she sees visions of the past. A scene from one of the latest photo-plays in which been filmed by the Fox Film Company. The above is a scene from this photo-
this clever actress has a part. play, and shows PEARL WHITE, who takes the star part.

A picture to delight the heart of "Pussyfoot" ! RUTH ROLAND does not mind the country being "dry," as A good old English bull terrier. BLANCHE
she never drinks anything stronger than milk, and is training her company to follow suit. SWEET'S dog, " The Kid."

Picture Slaw, December Utfi, 1920.

BEGIN TQ-DAY ! A POWERFUL STORY QF A GREAT TEMPTATION. By EMMIE ALLING HAM.

Read This First.

ARTHUR WESTON is summoned by his aunt
Amy Rae, to Oreystone Manor. !ihe tells him
she is worried about her son Harry. Her
husband married her for her money, and he has
spent it as fast as he can, and there is uo provision
made for her son*s future.

She trusts Arthur implicitly, and gives him a bag
containing twenty thousand pounds in notes which
she has managed to save, and asks him to hold it in
trust for her boy. She tells Arthur that she will
leave Greystonc Manor to him ; but it is really for
Harry, and he is to pass it over to him when he is
t wenty-one. '

Arthur is deeply touched.

" May God punish me if I do not respect your
trust in me," he says very earnestly.

A fortnight later Amy Rae dies. After the will
lias been read, there is an unpleasant incident when
Weston overhears a conversation between Harry
and Grace Ferguson, the vicar's daughter, and it
ends in a fight between the man and the boy.

The Rev. Ferguson calls on Weston as he' wishes
1o make peace between him and Harry, but Arthur
refuses to go to dinner with the rector to meet his
cousin.

On returning home, the Rev. Ferguson tries to
persuade Harry to give up his idea of going to
Australia, but with no avail ; and one day the boy
comes to say good-bye.

Grace is very upset to think he is going away, and
after he has left she goes to Greystonc Manor and
enters the house by a secret passage because she
thinks there is a burglar in the library. She finds it
is only Arthur Weston, and as she is making her
way out again she finds that someone else has entered
the house by the secret passage. It is Cecil Rae,
and Arthur Weston comes face to face with him as
he is leaving the library. They enter the room
together, and Grace hears them quarrelling, and
when she reaches the, garde n a shot rings out.

The Tragedy.

THE Rev. Mr. Ferguson was late down to
breakfast on the following morning. He
had spent a restless night.
" I think it must have been that Welsh rarebit
we had for supper," he explained to his wife.
" I had the most horrible nightmare. I trust
I did right in letting the dear boy go," he con-
tinued, almost in the same breath.

" Why, of cour.se you did, my dear ! You
did your best to stop him," said Mrs. Ferguson,
in her motherly, soothing voice. " And, after
all, I agreed with Harry. I like his spirit in
going to earn his own living at once. You
need not fear," she went on. with quiet con-
fidence, as she poured the rector out his coffee.
" Harry will make good ; ho will make us all
proud of him. You wait and see."
The rector sighed.

" Well, we must hope for the best," ho said,
as he opened the morning newspaper.

Grace stole a grateful glance at her mother.

It was so good to hear Harry praised. She
wanted to speak of him, to add her words of
hope for -his well beimr. but her tongue seemed
tiod. She could only breathe a prayer in her
heart for his safety.

Mr. Ferguson suddenly gavo a startled
exclamation, and looked at his companions over
his paper.

This is terrible ! " he said, staring at them
blankly. . .

" What is ?. What has happened ? " Mother
and daughter both spoke at the same time.

Mr. Ferguson looked at the paper again, as
though doubting the evidence of his senses, and
then passed it across to his wife.

Mrs. Ferguson adjusted her spectacles.

" The body of a man was found in Greystono
Woods last night by a party of labourers. A
revolver, which was marked with the initials
' R.', was identified as belonging to this dead
man, who was well know n in t he neighbourhood.
Tin! tragody points to suicide.

" Cecil Rae, tho dead man, was the husband of
the lato Mrs. Rae, of Greystono Manor, wdio,
in hor will, cut her husband off without even
tho proverbial shilling. Mr. Hue, it is under-
blood, was very heavily in debt, and had

already, on the day of the tragedy, had an
interview with his lawyers. The police are busy
making further inquiries."

Grace had glided from her seat, and was
leaning over her mother's shoulder. As she read
the words, her mind was going over the events
of the evening before.

She had heard the pistol shot, but it had not
been in the woods, but in the manor house
itself. What did it mean ? Had Cecil Rao
shot Arthur Weston and then gone into the
woods and shot himself ?

A horrified little cry escaped her.

Mrs. Ferguson glanced quickly up* and
eudeavoured to crush the paper in her hands.
She had no wish for her young dau